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Definition thou

Etymology 1

From Middle English thou, tho, thogh, thoue, thou?, thow, thowe, tou, towe, thu, thue, thugh, tu, you (Northern England), ðhu, þeou, þeu, þou (the latter three early Southwest England), from Old English þ?, from Proto-Germanic *þ? (“you (singular), thou”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh? (“you, thou”). The English word is cognate with Ancient Greek ?? (sú) (Doric Ancient Greek ?? (tú), Greek ??? (esý)), Irish tu, Gothic ?? (þu), Latin tu, Lithuanian tu, Old Church Slavonic ty (ty), Old Dutch th? (Middle Dutch du, Limburgish doe), Old Frisian th? (West Frisian do), Old High German d? (German du), Old Norse þú, (Danish du, Faroese tú, Icelandic þú, Norwegian du, Old Swedish þu (Swedish du)), Old Saxon th? (Low German du), Welsh ti.

Pronoun

thou (plural ye, objective case thee, reflexive thyself, possessive determiner thy or thine, possessive pronoun thine)

1. (archaic, dialectal, formal, literary or religion) Singular nominative form of you. [chiefly up to early 17th c.]

Etymology 2

From Late Middle English thouen, theu, thew, thou, thowe, thowen, thui, thuy (“to address (a person) with thou, particularly in a contemptuous or polite manner”), from the pronoun thou: see etymology 1 above.

Verb

thou (third-person singular simple present thous, present participle thouing, simple past and past participle thoued)

1. (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.
2. (intransitive) To use the word thou.

Etymology 3

Short for thou(sandth).

Noun

thou (plural thous)

1. (Britain, dated) A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch.

Etymology 4

Short for thou(sand).

Noun

thou (plural thou)

1. (slang) A thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).

Etymology 5

A misspelling of though.

Adverb

thou (not comparable)

1. Misspelling of though.

Conjunction

thou

1. Misspelling of though.

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