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Where does “þa-” come from?
þa- (Proto-Germanic) comes from Proto-Indo-European to-, from Proto-Indo-European só — this; that.
Ancestry of “þa-”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Indo-European
to-
it; that; the, that
2
Proto-Indo-European
só
this; that
Words derived from “þa-”
those
tho
those're
þā
tho
tha
thô
thos
those've
thoseness
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