| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | to- |
| DEFINITION: | Demonstrative pronoun. For the nominative singular see so-.
Derivatives include decoy, thus, and tandem.
1a. the2; natheless, from Old English th , th (instrumental case), by the; b. decoy, from Middle Dutch de, the; c. lest, from Old English the, a conjunction. a–c from Germanic *th, from Indo-European instrumental form *t. 2. though, from Middle English though, though, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse th , though, from Germanic *thauh, “for all that.” 3. these, this, those, from Old English thes, this, this, from Germanic *thasi-. 4. than, then, from Old English thanne, thænne, thenne, than, then, from Germanic *thana-. 5. thence, from Old English thanon, thence, from Germanic *thanana-. 6. there, from Old English th r, thr, there, from Germanic *thr. 7. thither, from Old English thæder, thider, thither, from Germanic *thathro. 8. they, from Old Norse their, they, from Germanic nominative plural *thai. 9. their, from Old Norse their(r)a, theirs, from Germanic genitive plural *thaira. 10. them, from Old Norse theim and Old English thm, them, from Germanic dative plural *thaimiz. 11. Extended neuter form *tod-. that, from Old English thæt, that, from Germanic *that. 12. thus, from Old English thus, thus, from Germanic *thus-. 13. Adverbial (originally accusative) form *tam. tandem, tantamount, from Latin tandem, at last, so much, and tantus, so much. 14. Suffixed reduced form *t- li-. tales, from Latin tlis, such. 15. tauto-, from Greek to, the. (Pokorny 1. to- 1086.) |
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