English

eedit

Pronunciation

eedit

Etymology 1

eedit

Frae Middle Inglis

tho

,

tha

, frae Old English

, frae Proto-Germanic *þai (those), frae Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (that).

Article

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Tho

  1. (obsolete) The (plural form); those.

Pronoun

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Tho

  1. (obsolete) Those; they.

Etymology 2

eedit

Frae Middle Inglis

tho

,

tha

, frae Old English þā (then, when), frae Proto-Germanic *þa- (that), frae Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (that).

Adverb

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Tho (nae comparable)

  1. (now Template:Context 2) Then; thareupon.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
      Tho, her avizing of the vertues rare / Which thereof spoken were, she gan againe / Her to bethink of that mote to her selfe pertaine.

Conjunction

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Tho

  1. (dialectal) When.

Etymology 3

eedit

American Inglis; Alteration o

though

.

Adverb

eedit

tho

  1. (informal, Template:Context 2) Lua error in Module:Form_of/templates at line 167: Please enter a language code in the first parameter..
    • 2009, John Hough, Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg[1], Simon and Schuster, ISBN 9781416589655, page 121:
      I wonder now when I will find time to read it but it is a treasure anyway tho heavy in my knapsack, …

Anagrams

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Crimean Gothic

eedit

Etymology

eedit

Frae Proto-Germanic *sa, *sō, *þat.

Article

eedit

Tho

  1. the
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      omnibus vero dictionibus praeponebat articulum tho aut the

Usage notes

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While it is likely that Crimean Gothic retained grammatical gender, de Busbecq's letter daes nae mention which airticles are uised wi which wirds, makin it impossible tae reconstruct thair gender.


Scots

eedit

Pronunciation

eedit
  • /θoː/

Adverb

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Tho (comparative mair tho, superlative maist tho)

  1. though, however