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English
Etymology
From Middle English thame.
Pronoun
thame
- (Scotland, obsolete) them
1797, Edinburgh Magazine: Or Literary Miscellany, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 180:...And to charge thame hereto under the pain of rebellion and putting of thame to thr horne...
1846, Thomas M'Cri et al., Lives of the Scottish Reformers, page 190:...that we communicat with thame in nathing that may appeir to manteane or defend thame...
Derived terms
Anagrams
Hadza
Etymology
- possible old masculine suffix -me
Pronunciation
Pronoun
thame ?
- (interrogative) who?, what?
Related terms
Middle English
Pronoun
thame
- Alternative spelling of þame (“them”)