thae, dem. pron. and a. Sc. and north. dial.
(ðeː, ðɪə)
Forms: (1–6 þa), 6 thai, 6–7 thay, 6– Sc. thae, thea, 9 theae, north. dial. theea, thee.
[Mod. Sc. and north. dial. repr. of OE. and northern ME. þá, tha, midl. and south. ME. tho. For the phonology cf. mae, nae, sae, twae, whae, = OE. má, ná, swá, twá, hwá, Eng. mo, no, so, two, who.]
The Sc. and north. dial. plural of that, = ME. þa, tho; mod. those. a. pron.
| 1583 Leg. Bp. St. Androis 613 Gude Robert Melwene of Carnebie I shuld not racken in with thea. ? 17.. Auld Maitland v. in Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Bord., Thou sall hae thae, thou sall hae mae. 1780 J. Mayne Siller Gun i, Her exultation was exprest In words like thae. 1790 Burns Tam o'Shanter 151 Now Tam, O Tam! had thae been queans. 1873 Murray Dial. S. Scot. 182 Dynna teake theae (Don't take those). |
b. adj.
| a 1584 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 85 To heir thae startling stremis cleir, Me thocht it musique to the eir. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 22 Pentland it was called,..evin as this day thae mountanis declairis sa named. 1603 Philotus lxxviii, And send to ȝow thay claithis vnsene. 1786 Burns Dream ix, Thae bonny bairn⁓time, Heav'n has lent. 1826 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 186 Thae broad vine-leaves hingin in the veranda. 1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 76 But thae hames are gane. 1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. (N. Yorksh.), Wheea's theea tweea bairns? (Northumb.) Thee kye; thee folk. |