different between zho vs tho

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

zho (plural zhos)

1. Alternative spelling of dzo

Anagrams

• ZOH

English

Pronunciation

• (when stressed)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ð??/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ðo?/
  • Rhymes: -??
• (when unstressed)
  • (West Country) IPA^(key): /ð?/
  • Homophone: the

Etymology 1

From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þ? pl (“the, those”), from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian do pl (“the”).

Article

tho

1. (obsolete, West Country) The (plural form); those.

Pronoun

tho

1. (obsolete) Those; they.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þ? (“then, when”), from Proto-Germanic *þa- (“that”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). See also German da (“then, thereupon”).

Adverb

tho (not comparable)

1. (now dialectal) Then; thereupon.
   • 1481, William Caxton, The History Reynard the Fox?

     Tho went I near and found Master Reynard, that had left that he first read and sang, and began to play his old play.

   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender? Januarye?

     Tho to a hill his faynting flocke he ledde.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:

     Tho, her avizing of the vertues rare / Which thereof spoken were, she gan againe / Her to bethink of that mote to her selfe pertaine.

   • 1642, Henry More, Song Soul?

     Tho I gan closely on his person look.

Conjunction

tho

1. (dialectal) When.

Etymology 3

Mostly found in American English; alteration of though. Compare tho'.

Adverb

tho (not comparable)

1. (informal, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of though

Anagrams

• -oth, HOT, OTH, hot, o'th', oth

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sa, *s?, *þat.

Article

tho

1. the
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq

     omnibus vero dictionibus praeponebat articulum tho aut the

     but to all utterances one prefixes the article tho or the

Usage notes

While it is likely that Crimean Gothic retained grammatical gender, de Busbecq's letter does not mention which articles are used with which words, making it impossible to reconstruct their gender.

Middle English

Article

tho

1. the
   • c. 1449-1455, Reginald Pecock, Represser of over-much weeting of the Clergie

     sithen if tho thre be sufficiently improued , that is to seie , if it be sufficientli proued that tho thre ben noust and vntrewe and badde

Old Saxon

Adverb

thô

1. then

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?/

Adverb

tho (not comparable)

1. though, however

Welsh

Noun

tho

1. Aspirate mutation of to.

Mutation