tho
/ðoʊ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
Those; they.
Obsolete
adv
Then; thereupon.
conj
When.
adv
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Tho to a hill his faynting flocke he ledde."
- "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."
- "The English are told as children that maize is food for pigs, and tho Americans eat maizebread with pleasure and have recently done so to a huge extent in order to make possible exports of wheat to Europe, the English persist in their unfounded prejudice against it."
- "I wonder now when I will find time to read it but it is a treasure anyway tho heavy in my knapsack, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā (“the, those”, plural), from Proto-West Germanic *þai, from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian do (“the”, plural). Doublet of they.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: tho, þā, *þai, *to-, *sa
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ðoʊ/
- British English: /ðəʊ/