How do you pronounce thone?

The recorded pronunciation is /θəʊn/.

Where does thone come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

thone

/θəʊn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English

Syllables: thone
IPA: /θəʊn/

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Meaning

adj

damp; moist; wet; soft from dampness.

contraction

Contraction of the one.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"This Indenture made ⁊c. Betweene ſir E. A. and dame M. his wife on thone party, and J. N. of ⁊c. and W. his wife on thother partie, Witneſſeth, that where the ſaid Sir E. A. ⁊ M. ſtand ſeiſed of, and in the manoꝛ of M. and of one capitall meſuage called E. and the sſite of demeane of the late diſſolued Monaſtery of E. in the county of W. and of diuers maſuages, lands, temenents, and hereditaments in E. S. A. and B. in the ſaid county of W."

Etymology

From Middle English *thon, from Old English þān (“moist, damp, wet; having water, watered, irrigated”), from Proto-West Germanic *þain, from Proto-Germanic *þainaz (“moist”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt, flow”). Cognate with Scots thane, thain (“moist, damp”). Related to thaw.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *thon, þan, *þain, *þainaz, *teh₂-

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

thoner (comparative) more thone (comparative) thonest (superlative) most thone (superlative) thoan (alternative) thooan (alternative) thwooan (alternative) th'one (alternative)

Derived Forms

thoney thony thonish

Phrases

thone-corn thone-wheat

Frequently Paired Words

thother

Synonyms

drenched saturated sodden bewatered damp dripping drunk humid irriguous madid moist moisty

Rhymes With

own known phone well-known alone shown stone zone loan grown unknown tone