different between thay vs thaw

English

Etymology 1

Article

thay

1. Pronunciation spelling of the.

Etymology 2

Verb

thay

1. Pronunciation spelling of say, to indicate a speaker with a speech impediment such as a lisp.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

thay

1. Obsolete spelling of they

Anagrams

• Athy

Middle English

Pronoun

thay

1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [t?aj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [t?aj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [t?a(?)j??]

Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese ? (SV: th?).

Verb

thay • (????, ????, ????, ????, ?)

1. to change; to replace

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Adverb

thay

1. Used as a modifier to indicate surprise.

   Synonym: ?i

English

Alternative forms

• thow

Etymology

From Middle English thowen, thawen, from Old English þ?wian, from Proto-West Germanic *þauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *þawjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *teh?- (“to melt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

thaw (third-person singular simple present thaws, present participle thawing, simple past and past participle thawed)

1. (intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen

2. (intransitive) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.

4. (transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
   • 1700, John Dryden, "Palamon and Arcite", in Fables, Ancient and Modern:

     The frame of burnish'd steel, that cast a glare / From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.

Translations

Noun

thaw (plural thaws)

1. The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
2. a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is frozen

   • raging floods pursue their hasty thaw ;
     Our thaw was mild , the cold not chased away

Translations

See also

• unthaw, dethaw
• snowmelt

Anagrams

• HAWT, Wath, hawt, wath, what

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?au?/

Verb

thaw

1. Aspirate mutation of taw.

Mutation