Wt/sco/tho

See also: Wt/sco/Appendix:Variations of "tho"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA⁽⁾: /ðəʊ/
• (US) IPA⁽⁾: /ðoʊ/

Etymology 1

Frae Middle Inglis tho, tha, frae Old English þā (“the, those”, plural), frae Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”), frae Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”).

Article

tho

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

Pronoun

tho

1. (obsolete) Those; they.

Etymology 2

Frae Middle Inglis tho, tha, frae Old English þā (“then, when”), frae Proto-Germanic *þa- (“that”), frae Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”).

Adverb

tho (nae comparable)

1. (now dialectal) 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

tho

1. (dialectal) When.

Etymology 3

American Inglis; Alteration o though.

Adverb

tho

1. (informal, chiefly US)

   • 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

• hot , HOT

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Crimean Gothic

Etymology

Frae Proto-Germanic *sa, *sō, *þat.

Article

tho

1. the
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     omnibus vero dictionibus praeponebat articulum tho aut the

Usage notes

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.

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θoː/

Adverb

tho (comparative mair tho, superlative maist tho)

1. though, however