Th
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Etymology
Origin of -th2
Middle English -th ( e ), Old English -thu, -tho, -th (variant -t after a velar, f, or s ); cognate with Gothic -itha, Latin -tus, Greek -tos
Origin of -th3
Middle English -the, -te, Old English -tha, -the (variant -ta after f or s ); cognate with Old Norse -thi, -di, Latin -tus, Greek -tos; see -eth 2
Example Sentences
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Th suit claims they failed to take action despite Vidal’s testimony vindicating Saldana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
More delights await in the 30-film “Art House Horror” slate of genre classics spanning nearly a century, from the 1922 Swedish silent witchcraft pic “Häxan” and Carl Th.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Th DJ's father was murdered before he was born, but he has a strong bond with his mother and younger brothers - and is driven to succeed.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2023
Th Israeli military did not confirm the death but said its troops came under attack overnight when two military vehicles stalled just outside the town of Beit Ummar, near the city of Hebron.
From Reuters ● Nov. 29, 2022
Th e next morning after breakfast, I told Grover about my dream.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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Which, he notes, is not the case with, say, "big thing" or "big thighs," both of which give your tongue the space to bridge that awkward transition from "-ig" to "-th."
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2011
The next evening we were relieved by the -th Brigade, and once again returned to rest billets.
From Over the Top by Empey, Arthur Guy
The ordinary termination of feminine singular nouns is -th, not -h.
From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George
Strength -th is a true word; fowl or fugel -l is no true word.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
The inflexions of the 3rd pers. prs. sg. are -th and -s.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
As he comes first, he was probably king of Sippara, where Shamash was the city god, and whence the collections, B1, B2, and V. A. Th., seem, on other grounds, to have come.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
In § 1702 Th. and Pr. he places much confidence on a particular sign of water in the chest, and remarks, that the same sign is not produced by the presence of pus.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by Warren, John Collins
Notes from a letter to C. Th. v.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
For the time taken for its composition and the poet's anticipations of immortality see Th. xii.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
Th. translates 'on the roaring sea,' but adds 'quite conjectural.'
From Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems by Garnett, James Mercer
The statement’s authors, which included researchers from the Harvard T.H.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
For example, a review in August 2025 led by Dr Andrew Baccarelli, dean of the Harvard T.H.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
Other coauthors of the study include Chenghao Wang of the University of Oklahoma; and Kari Nadeau of the Harvard T.H.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2025
She holds a master in public health degree Harvard University's T.H.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2025
Green. directed by self-conscious and purposive intelligence to an end conceived as good,—that the polemic of T.H.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
“This year, April 15 falls on a Wednesday. To be safe, I would look at April 10 th or 11 th as the latest to file.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 28, 2026
Live text commentary will begin from 20:00 GMT on th BBC Sport website and app, covering all the build-up to the main event.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
Gigi Hadid, 28, and her sister Bella Hadid, 27, two of the most famous fashion models in the world, were born in th U.S. and grew up in Southern California.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Some of the band’s greatest hits include “Uma Thurman,” “Sugar, We’re Goin Down,” “Dance, Dance” and “Thnks fr th Mmrs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
He pronounced them with the Castilian th sound, that is, with a lisp, an affectation peculiar to many of the Miracle Valley’s old-timers, whereas it could not be found farther south in Mexico.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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