th・oの英語

語源 1

From Middle English tho, tha, from 古期英語 þā (“the, those”, 複数形), from Proto-West Germanic *þai, from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian do (“the”, 複数形).

冠詞

tho

1. (obsolete, West Country) The (複数形 form); those.

代名詞

tho

1. (obsolete) Those; they.

語源 2

From Middle English tho, tha, from 古期英語 þā (“then, when”), from Proto-Germanic *þa- (“that”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). See also German da (“then, thereupon”).

副詞

tho (not comparable)

1. (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, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarie. Aegloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:

     Tho to a hill his faynting flocke he ledde.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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.

接続詞

tho

1. (dialectal) When.

語源 3

Mostly found in American English; alteration of though. Compare tho'.

副詞

tho (not comparable)

1. (informal, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of though
   • 2009, John Hough, Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg‎^[1], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 121:

     I wonder now when I will find time to read it but it is a treasure anyway tho heavy in my knapsack, …

アナグラム

• -oth, HOT, OTH, hot, o'th', oth

副詞

tho’ (not comparable)

1. though

アナグラム

• -oth, HOT, OTH, hot, o'th', oth