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DictionaryRoot: þær
Old English

þær

in or at that place

Forms

  • þær
  • there — The modern English spelling developed as þ was replaced by th.

Origin

An inherited Germanic place word, related to the family of that.

Note

The place may be literal or a position within an argument or situation.

14 / 14
A messenger carries a sealed parcel directly to the one clearly indicated table where the recipient is pointing.
adverb

thereunto

thair-un-TOO

To that thing, matter, or place.

Etymology
thereOld Englishin or at that place
+untoMiddle Englishto; toward

There points to a previously identified place or thing, and unto supplies direction toward it. Together they mean “to that,” whether the reference is a location or a matter.

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