theif

theif (plural theives or theifs)

1. Obsolete spelling of thief.
2. Misspelling of thief.

• feith, thief

• theef, theeff, theiff, theiffe
• thef (early); thief (Anglicised)
• teif, tyif (Galloway)

Inherited from Middle English thef, from Old English þēof, from Proto-West Germanic *þeub, from Proto-Germanic *þeubaz.

• IPA^(key): /θiːf/

theif (plural theivis or theifis)

1. A criminal or villain; a malicious or lawbreaking person:
   1. A thief; one who steals, especially stealthily.
   2. A reaver or plunderer; one who loots or pillages.
2. (rare) A demon or devil; an evil spirit.

• Scots: thief

• “thef(e, theif(e, thief, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.