tho
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tho"
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā pl (“the, those”), from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian do pl (“the”).
Article
tho
- (obsolete) The (plural form); those.
- Reginald Pecock (c.1450)
- Three trowings or opinions be causes and grounds of many and of well nigh all the errors which many of the lay party hold, and by which holding they unjustly and overmuch wite and blame the clergy and all heir (their) other neighbors of the lay side, which not hold tho same errors accordingly with hem (them), and therefore it is much need for to first give business to unroot and overturn tho three trowings, holdings, or opinions, before the improving of other; sithen if tho three be sufficiently improved, that is to say, if it be sufficiently proved that tho three be nought and untrue and bad, all the other untrue opinions and holdings built upon hem or upon any of hem must needs thereby take heir fall, and lack it whereby they might in any color or seeming be maintained, held, and supported.
- Alexander Scott (c.1580)
- Tho stalwart knights.
- Reginald Pecock (c.1450)
Etymology 2
From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā (“then, when”), from Proto-Germanic *þa- (“that”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). See also German da (“then, thereupon”).
Adverb
tho (not comparable)
- (now dialectal) Then; thereupon.
- 1481, William Caxton, The History Reynard the Foxː
- Tho went I near and found Master Reynard, that had left that he first read and sang, and began to play his old play.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calenderː Januaryeː
- Tho to a hill his faynting flocke he ledde.
- 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.
- 1642, Henry More, Song Soulː
- Tho I gan closely on his person look.
- 1481, William Caxton, The History Reynard the Foxː
Etymology 3
American English; alteration of though. Compare tho'.
Adverb
tho (not comparable)
Crimean Gothic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sa, *sō, *þat.
Article
tho
- the
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
- omnibus vero dictionibus praeponebat articulum tho aut the
- but to all utterances one prefixes the article tho or the
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
Usage notes
While it is likely that Crimean Gothic retained grammatical gender, de Busbecq's letter does not mention which articles are used with which words, making it impossible to reconstruct their gender.
Old Saxon
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θoː/
Welsh
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