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Icelandic
Pronunciation
Adverb
þaðan (not comparable)
- from there, thence
Ég og samfangar mínir komumst þaðan óséðir á meðan vörðurinn svaf.- I and my fellow prisoners managed to escape from there without being seen while the guard was sleeping.
Hljóðið kom þaðan!- The sound came from there!
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Old Norse
Etymology
From the stem of þar (“there”), þaðra (“thither”) + -an (ablative adverb). Compare héðan, hvaðan.
Adverb
þaðan (not comparable)
- thence, from there
- Vǫluspá, verse 20, in 1867, S. Bugge, Norrœn fornkvæði: Sæmundar Edda hins fróða. Christiania, page 4:
Þaðan koma meyjar / margs vitandi
þrjár, ór þeim sal / er und þolli stendr; […]- Thence come maidens / much knowing
three from the hall / which under that tree stands;
- (of time) after that
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