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English
Etymology 1
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.
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Adjective
thone (comparative thoner or more thone, superlative thonest or most thone)
- (dialectal) damp; moist; wet; soft from dampness.
- Synonyms: drenched, saturated, sodden; see also Thesaurus:wet
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Etymology 2
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thone
- (obsolete) Contraction of the one.
1615, William West, The First Part of Simboleography. , London: Companie of Stationers, unnumbered page: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.
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