th'
See also: th, Th, TH, 'th, -th, .th, th-, and Appendix:Variations of "th"
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ð/, /ðə/
- Rhymes: -ə
Contraction
th’
- (poetic, archaic) Contraction of the.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- all knights of noble name, / That couet in th'immortall booke of fame / To be eternized [...].
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
- Let's all sink wi' th' king.
- March 25 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "On the Slave Trade", in The Watchman
- Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe,
The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast,
With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul
To forms of beauty […]
- Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe,
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- (colloquial) Contraction of there.
- 1891, Edith Bower in The Overland Monthly, Volume XVII., page #135:
- She crossed her hand an’ turned her face up like a bird does, only th’ ain’t no birds what can sing like she did; seemed like she was n’t a‐doin’ of it at all,—voice came out of itself, like ’s if ’t was just a waitin’ for a change to git out.
- 1891, Edith Bower in The Overland Monthly, Volume XVII., page #135:
Anagrams
- HT, h/t, ht
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h/
Determiner
th’
- Munster form of d’ (“your sg”)
Yola
Article
th'
- Alternative form of a (“the”)
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Fhaade th' veezer.
- What the wiser.
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Pronoun
th'
- Alternative form of thou (“you”)
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Th' weithest.
- Thou seemest.
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Determiner
th'
- Alternative form of thee (“thy”)
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 5:
- Th' Eccellencie.
- Your Excellency.
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Pronoun
th'
- Alternative form of at (“that”)
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 10:
- th' oure eyen dwytheth apan ye Vigere o'dicke Zouvereine, Wilyame ee Vourthe,
- that our eyes rest upon the representative of that Sovereign, William IV.,
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References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 75, 77 & 114