ᚦᛡᛏ
Proto-Norse
Alternative forms
- ᚦᚨᛏ (þat) (older form)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *þat (neuter of *sa (“that”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tód (neuter of *só (“that”)). Cognate with Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐍄𐌰 (þata).
Pronoun
ᚦᛡᛏ (þᴀt /þat/)
- that (nominative and accusative singular neuter demonstrative pronoun)
- 500-700AD Stentoften Runestone
- […] ᚺᛖᚱᚼᛗᚼᛚᚼᛋᚼᛦ ᚼᚱᚼᚷᛖᚢ ᚹᛖᛚᚼᛞᚢᛞᛋᚼ ᚦᚼᛏ ᛒᚼᚱᛁᚢᛏᛁᚦ
- […] herAmAlAsAz ArAgeu welAduds| |sA þAt bAriutiþ
- […] incessantly [plagued] with maleficence, insidious/treacherous death, [will befall] he who breaks it [the monument]
- 500-700AD Stentoften Runestone
Usage notes
In earlier Proto-Norse, such as the language at the time of the Golden Horns of Gallehus, this word was spelled ᚦᚨᛏ (þat), as on the By stone (KJ71; NIæR6). However, by the time of the Stentoften Runestone, the ᚨ-rune (a) had moved from a generic /a/ to specifically a nasalized /ã/ (this sound value persists into the Old Norse reflex ᚬ, transcribed ą or o), and the regular /a/ was instead represented by the ᚼ-rune (A).
Descendants
- Old Norse: þat
- Icelandic: það
- Faroese: tað, hað
- Norn: da
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: det
- Norwegian Nynorsk: det, dat
- Jamtish: deð, heð
- Westrobothnian: he, hä, ä
- Old Swedish: þæt, þet, thæt, thet, thz
- Swedish: det, (obsolete) thet, dhet
- Old Danish: thet
- Danish: det