th-

Inherited from Middle English th-.

th-

1. (obsolete) The.

   ‎th- + ‎old → ‎thold

   ‎th- + ‎art → ‎thart

   ‎th- + ‎other → ‎thother

   • 1555, Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, translated by Richard Eden, The decades of the newe worlde or west India‎^[1], London: William Powell, page 290:

     Note therfore that Czar in the Ruthens tounge signifieth a kynge, wheras in the language of the Slauons, Pollons, Bohemes, and other, the same woorde Czar, signifieth Cesar by whiche name Themperours haue byn commonly cauled.

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “th-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

th-

1. the (written with elision before a vowel)

• Chaucer used forms such as thabsence, tharray, thegle (the eagle), and thingot.

• “th”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Inherited from Middle English th-.

th-

1. the