þancian, w. v., _to thank_: pret. sg. gode þancode ... þäs þe hire se willa ge-lamp (_thanked God that her wish was granted_), 626; so, 1398; pl. þancedon, 627(?). þanon, þonon, þonan, adv., _thence_: 1) local: þanon eft gewât (_he went thence back_), 123; þanon up ... stigon (_went up thence_), 224; so, þanon, 463, 692, 764, 845, 854, 1293; þanan, 1881; þonon, 520, 1374, 2409; þonan, 820, 2360, 2957.--2) personal: þanon untydras ealle on-wôcon (_from him_, i.e. Cain, etc.), 111; so, þanan, 1266; þonon, 1961; unsôfte þonon feorh ôð-ferede (i.e. from Grendel's mother), 2141. þâ, adv.: l) _there, then_, 3, 26, 28, 34, 47, 53, etc. With þær: þâ þær, 331. With nu: nu þâ (_now then_), 658.--2) conjunction, _when, as, since_, w. indic., 461, 539, 633, etc.;--_because, whilst, during, since_, 402, 465, 724, 2551, etc. þät, I. demons, pron. acc. neut. of se: demons, nom. þät (_that_), 735, 766, etc.; instr. sg. þý, 1798, 2029; þät ic þý wæpne ge-bräd (_that I brandished as(?) a weapon; that I brandished the weapon?_), 1665; þý weorðra (_the more honored_), 1903; þý sêft (_the more easily_), 2750; þý läs hym ýðe þrym wudu wynsuman for-wrecan meahte (_lest the force of the waves the winsome boat might carry away_), 1919; nô þý ær (_not sooner_), 755, 1503, 2082, 2374, 2467; nô þý leng (_no longer, none the longer_), 975. þý =adv., _therefore, hence_, 1274, 2068; þê ... þê = _on this account; for this reason ... that, because_, 2639-2642; wiste þê geornor (_knew but too well_), 822; he ... wäs sundes þê sænra þe hine swylt fornam (_he was the slower in swimming as [whom?] death carried him off_), 1437; näs him wihte þê sêl (_it was none the better for him_), 2688; so, 2278. Gen. sg. þäs = adv., _for this reason, therefore_, 7, 16, 114, 350, 589, 901, 1993, 2027, 2033, etc. þäs þe, especially after verbs of thanking, = _because_, 108, 228, 627, 1780, 2798;--also = secundum quod: þäs þe hie gewislîcost ge-witan meahton, 1351;--_therefore, accordingly_, 1342, 3001; tô þäs (_to that point; to that degree_), 715, 1586, 1617, 1968, 2411; þäs georne (_so firmly_), 969; ac he þäs fäste wäs ... besmiðod (_it was too firmly set_), 774; nô þäs frôd leofað gumena bearna þät þone grund wite (_none liveth among men so wise that he should know its bottom_), 1368; he þäs (þäm, MS.) môdig wäs (_had the courage for it_), 1509. II. conj. (relative), _that, so that_, 15, 62, 84, 221, 347, 358, 392, 571, etc.; ôð þät (_up to that, until_); see ôð. þätte (from þät þe, see þe), _that_, 151, 859, 1257, 2925, etc.; þät þe (_that_), 1847.
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