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English
Etymology 1
Preposition
thro
- (archaic) through
- 1851, Montagu, The Psalms, in a New Version, Fitted to the Tunes Used in Churches: Psalm CVI
- He the Red Sea rebuk'd also,
That it updrying fled:
As thro a desert dry to go,
Them thro the deeps He led.
Etymology 2
From Middle English thro, thra, from Old Norse þrár (“stubborn, obstinate, persevering”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawaz (“obstinate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“to grind, drill, turn”).
Adjective
thro (comparative more thro, superlative most thro)
- (obsolete) Eager; earnest; vehement.
- (obsolete) Bold.
Anagrams
Welsh
Pronunciation
Noun
thro
- Aspirate mutation of tro.
Verb
thro
- Aspirate mutation of tro.
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.