tho

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English

Pronunciation

  • (when stressed)
    • (UK) IPA(key): /ðəʊ/
    • (file)
    • (US) IPA(key): /ðoʊ/
    • Rhymes: -əʊ
  • (when unstressed)

Etymology 1

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.

Article

tho

  1. (obsolete, West Country) The (plural form); those.

Pronoun

tho

  1. (obsolete) Those; they.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā (then, when), from Proto-Germanic *þa- (that), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (that). See also German da (then, thereupon).

Adverb

tho (not comparable)

  1. (now dialectal) Then; thereupon.

Conjunction

tho

  1. (dialectal) When.

Etymology 3

Mostly found in American English; alteration of though. Compare tho'.

Adverb

tho (not comparable)

  1. (Internet slang, chiefly US, Philippines) Informal spelling of though.
    • 2009, John Hough, Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 121:
      I wonder now when I will find time to read it but it is a treasure anyway tho heavy in my knapsack, []

Anagrams

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sa, *sō, *þat.

Article

tho

  1. the
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      omnibus vero dictionibus praeponebat articulum tho aut the
      but to all utterances one prefixes the article tho or the

Usage notes

While it is likely that Crimean Gothic retained grammatical gender, de Busbecq's letter does not mention which articles are used with which words, making it impossible to reconstruct their gender.

Middle English

Article

tho

  1. the
    • c. 1449-1455, Reginald Pecock, Represser of over-much weeting of the Clergie
      sithen if tho thre be sufficiently improued , that is to seie , if it be sufficientli proued that tho thre ben noust and vntrewe and badde
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Old Saxon

Adverb

thô

  1. then

Scots

Pronunciation

Adverb

tho (not comparable)

  1. though, however

Welsh

Noun

tho

  1. Aspirate mutation of to.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
to do nho tho
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.