Old English · conjunction
for þon þe
- Part of speech
- conjunction
- Modern English
- forthanbecause
Meaning
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because
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for, on the account of
...ac onfōh mē nū þīnne āgene þēawa, for ic eom flēonde fram hym.
...but do Thou receive me now, Thine own servant, for I am fleeing from them.
late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies -
since
Iċ onġiete þæt iċ þē hæbbe āþrotenne mid þȳ langan spelle, for þon þē lyst nū lēoða.
I see I've bored you with that long argument, since you want poems now.
late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
Descendants
forthan
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