coalesced form of the other, frequent from 14th to 17th c.; in later time also written th’ other: see TH-, TH’.

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  Often used in contrast to THONE = the one: see THONE, ONE 18, 19, and TOTHER.

2

c. 1300.  Beket, 466. Tho were thothere glad ynouȝ.

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c. 1400.  Trevisa’s Higden (Rolls), III. 65 (MS. γ). Þooþer wys men.

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1534–5.  MS. Rawl. D., 777, lf. 67 b. One of them in [etc.] and thoder in the hawpace.

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1556.  Knaresborough Wills (Surtees), I. 73. To my children thother half.

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1633.  T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., I. i. (1821), 11. On thother part.

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