Old English · pronoun
þæge
- Part of speech
- pronoun, masculine / neuter
- IPA
- /ˈθæ.je/
- Syllables
- ˈθæ · je (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- themthesethosethey
Meaning
-
they, these; those, them
Þæġe twēġen dagas
These two days
Etymology
Likely a late borrowing from Old Norse þeir (“they, those”), from Proto-Germanic *þai (“they, those”), making it a doublet of native þā (“those”). Compare English they, a later (c. 1200s) borrowing from the same Old Norse source.
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