þar

See also: yar, Yar, thar, Thar, yar-, and y ar

Gothic

Romanization

þar

1. Romanization of 𐌸𐌰𐍂

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse þar, from Proto-Germanic *þar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θaːr/

  Rhymes: -aːr

Adverb

þar (not comparable)

1. there (in that place)

See also

• þangað

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Middle English

Determiner

þar

1. Alternative form of þeir

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Old English

Alternative forms

• þāra

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar (“there”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θɑːr/

Adverb

þār (Late West Saxon)

1. there, in that place

Descendants

• Middle English: thare, thar, ther, there, thore
  • English: there
  • Yola: aar, thar, th'ar, thaar, thaare, thoare

References

1. Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “þar”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Old Norse

Alternative forms

• þær

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ᚦᚨᚱ (þar), Proto-Germanic *þar (“there”). Cognate with Old English þār, þǣr, Old Frisian thēr, dēr, Old Saxon thār, Old High German dār, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐍂 (þar).

Adverb

þar (not comparable)

1. there, in that place

Descendants

• Icelandic: þar
• Faroese: har
• Norwegian Bokmål: der
• Norwegian Nynorsk: der
• Westrobothnian: der, derr
• Old Swedish: þar, þær
  • Swedish: där, (dialectal) dér, dar
• Danish: der

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Proto-Norse

Romanization

þar

1. Romanization of ᚦᚨᚱ