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Old English · adverb

þanan

Part of speech
adverb
IPA
/ˈθɑ.nɑn/
Syllables
ˈθɑ · nɑn (2 syllables)

Meaning

  1. thence; from there

    Wōst þū þonne gyt genōh be Gode, gyf hē þē byð cūð swā þē is nū þes mōnan færeld — on hwilcum tungle he nū is, oððe on hwilce hē þanon gēð?

    Wouldst thou then know enough about God, if He be to thee as couth as is now the moon's fare — on which constellation it now is? Or onto which goeth it thence?

    late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
  2. thereupon; after that

    hrusan heolstre biwrāh, · ond iċ hēan þonan wōd winterċeariġ · ofer waþema ġebind,

    since once, long ago, covered my goldfriend(s) with darkness of earth, and poor I thereupon traveled sad as winter over binding of waves,

    siþþan ġeāra iū · goldwine mīn(n)e

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þananā; cognate with Old Saxon thanan, Old High German danan (German dannen).

Descendants

thence

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