Where does “þeah” come from?

þeah (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic þauh, from Proto-Germanic þauh, from Proto-Germanic -hw, from Proto-Germanic -hwe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

þeah (Old English): for all that, however, even so, yet; though,...

Definitions

  1. for all that, however, even so, yet; though,...

Ancestry of “þeah”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicþauhnevertheless, though
2Proto-Germanicþauhnevertheless, though
3Proto-Germanic-hwand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
4Proto-Germanic-hwe—
5Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →Every word from Proto-Germanic -hw →Every word from Proto-Germanic þauh →