thoo

thoo (nonstandard)

1. Pronunciation spelling of through.

thoo

1. (Orkney) Thou; singular informal form of you.

• Historically also used north of the Humber-Lume line in (Northern) England, but now rare there.

• Hoot, Htoo, OTOH, hoot, otoh, toho

From Middle English thou, tho, thogh, thoue, thouȝ, thow, thowe, tou, towe, thu, thue, thugh, tu, you (Northern England), ðhu, þeou, þeu, þou (the latter three early Southwest England), from Old English þū,from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū (“you (singular), thou”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you, thou”).

• IPA^(key): /ðuː/

thoo

1. thou

thoo (objective case thee, vocative thee, possessive determiner thee)

1. Orkney form of thou

   Thoo kens whit hid's like wi a hooseful o folk

   You know what it's like with a houseful of folks

• thoo is used to address a friend, a family member or someone younger.

• Flaws, Margaret; Lamb, Gregor (1996) The Orkney Dictionary, Kirkwall, Orkney: Orkney Language and Culture Group, published 2001, →ISBN