A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300Coleridge, Herbert
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A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the Semi-Saxon Period of A.D. 1250 to 1300
Coleridge, Herbert
English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Teyte, _adj._ == lively. HD. 1841. ON. teitr
Tha, == they. Ps. cxxiii. 3
---- == them. Ibid. 6
Thah. See Though
Thakke, _v. a._ == thwack. Cok. 140. AS. þacian
Than, _adv._ of comparison. RG. 459. See Then
Thane, _sb._ HD. 2260. pl. ‘thavenes’? RG. 202
Thanene. See Thence
Thank [thonc]. _sb._ RG. 485. Wright’s L. P. p. 37
---- _v. a._ RG. 452
Thankfully, _adv._ Pol. S. 156
Thanking, _sb._ Alys. 4065
Thar, _v. impers._ == it needs. See Thore, _v. n._
Tharmide, _adv._ == therewith. O. and N. 1368
Tharne, _v. a._ == lose, be deprived of. HD. 2492, 1912. See Gloss. to
Ormulum, _s. v._ þarnenn
---- == endure. HD. 1687. See the Avowyng of Arthur, st. 66, v. 15
Thas, == takes? See Take
Thas, That. See under The
That, == done? See The, _v. a._
That, _conj._ RG. 377, et passim
Thave, _v. a._ == give. HD. 296; [thau]. Fragm. in Warton H. E. P. vol. i.
p. 22. Cf. ‘thane’ and ‘cayn’ in Havelok
---- == bear, sustain. HD. 2696. AS. þafian
_THE._ _def. art._
_sing._ N. ‘the.’ RG. 115; ‘tho.’ RG. 12. ‘theo.’ Alys. 2325
G. ‘thare.’ O. and N. 28
D. ‘than.’ O. and N. 125, 133; ‘then.’ RG. 543; ‘thon.’ O. and N.
135; fem. ‘thare.’ O. and N. 1581; ‘there.’ Wright’s L. P. p. 95
A. ‘then.’ RG. 542; ‘thun.’ RG. 508
_plur._ N. ‘theo.’ Alys. 3411; ‘the.’ RG. 42
A. ‘the.’ RG. 42
constr. with subst. and adj., ‘the waters.’ RG. 374; ‘the
new forest.’ Ib. 375
with compar. adj., ‘the bet, the worse.’ RG. 374
The, _dem. pron._
_sing._ N. ‘the.’ O. and N. 798. neut. ‘that.’ RG. 377; ‘thet.’ RG.
387
D. ‘than.’ O. and N. 1684
A. ‘thut.’ 533
The, _rel. pron._ == who
_sing._ N. ‘the.’ O. and N. 1384, 1612; ‘that.’ RG. 387; ‘thit.’ HD.
2990
A. ‘that.’ RG. 387
_plur._ N. ‘that.’ RG. 387. Alys. 4656
The, _adv._ == there. HD. 863
The, _v. n._ == flourish, prosper. HD. 2606; Alys. 5472; [y-the]. RG. 428;
part. pres. ‘theonige,’ for ‘theoninge.’ 149 B.; part. pass. ‘itheȝ.’ 151
B.; ‘y-then.’ RG. 346. AS. þeon
The, _v. a._ == do. M. Ode, 44. part. ‘that.’ HD. 1674. Germ. thun
The, == or, after ‘whether.’ O. and N. 822, 1358, 1360, 1406
Thede, _sb._ == country, [theode]. O. and N. 1581. HD. 105; territory.
Alys. 96; place. HD. 2890. AS. þeód
Theft, _sb._ RG. 503
Thei. See Though
Thelde, _v. a._ == tell, give account of. Creed of St Athan. 93. ON.
þylja. AS. þyle. The AS. þylian does not occur in this sense
Then, _adv._ [thonne]. RG. 115; [thanne]. O. and N. 508
---- == when [than]. O. and N. 421
Thence, _adv._ gen. of ‘then.’ [thannes], 1141 B.; [thanene]. RG. 377;
[thethen]. Ps. cxxxi. 17
Thene, _v. n._ == reach to. Rel. S. i. 1. AS. þenian
There, _adv._ == of place. RG. 367; ‘thar.’ O. and N. 1612; ‘thore.’ Body
and Soul, 98
---- with verbs, ‘there has.’ RG. 367
Thereafter, _adv._ RG. 401
Thereafterward, _adv._ Pilate, 110
Thereagainst, _adv._ 294 B.
Thereat, _adv._ RG. 464
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