† ˈthother
coalesced form of the other, frequent from 14th to 17th c.; in later time also written th' other: see th-1, th'.
Often used in contrast to thone = the one: see thone, one 18, 19, and tother.
| c 1300 Beket 466 Tho were thothere glad ynouȝ. c 1400 Trevisa's Higden (Rolls) III. 65 (MS. γ) Þooþer wys men. 1534–5 MS. Rawl. D. 777 lf. 67 b, One of them in [etc.] and thoder in the hawpace. 1556 Knaresborough Wills (Surtees) I. 73 To my children thother half. 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. i. (1821) 11 On thother part. |