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
- for all that, however, even so, yet; though,...
Ancestry of “þeah”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Proto-West Germanic | þauh | nevertheless, though |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | þauh | nevertheless, though |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | -hw | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | -hwe | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |