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English
Etymology 1
Adverb
thair (comparative more thair, superlative most thair)
- Archaic spelling of there.
Etymology 2
Pronoun
thair
- Archaic spelling of their.
Anagrams
Irish
Pronunciation
Verb
thair
- Lenited form of tair.
Middle English
Determiner
thair
- Alternative form of þeir
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Verb
thair
- Lenited form of tair.
Scots
Etymology
From Middle Scots thar, from Middle English tharen, from Old English þearf, from Proto-Germanic *þarf, first and third person singular form of Proto-Germanic *þurbaną (“to need, require”), from Proto-Indo-European *terp- (“to satiate, satisfy”). Cognate with Dutch durf (“dare”, verb), German darf (“may”, verb), Norwegian tarv (“need”, verb), Icelandic þarf (“need”, verb).
Pronunciation
Verb
thair (third-person singular simple present thair, simple past thurst, past participle thurst)
- To need to; to be bound or obligated to do something.
Ye thair nae ga.- You don't need to go.
Ye thurst nae scraugh sa lood.- You didn't need to scream so loud.
References
“thair”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Welsh
Pronunciation
Numeral
thair
- Aspirate mutation of tair.
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.