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Gothic
Romanization
þar
- Romanization of 𐌸𐌰𐍂
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse þar, from Proto-Germanic *þar.
Pronunciation
Adverb
þar (not comparable)
- there (in that place)
See also
Middle English
Determiner
þar
- Alternative form of þeir
Old English
Pronunciation
Adverb
þār (Late West Saxon)
- Alternative form of þǣr
Descendants
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “þar”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Norse ᚦᚨᚱ (þar), Proto-Germanic *þar (“there”). Cognate with Old English þār, þǣr, Old Frisian thēr, dēr, Old Saxon thār, Old High German dār, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐍂 (þar).
Adverb
þar (not comparable)
- there, in that place
Descendants
Proto-Norse
Romanization
þar
- Romanization of ᚦᚨᚱ