thone

See also: Thone, thǫ́ne, and þone

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *thon, from Old English þān (“moist, damp, wet; having water, watered, irrigated”), from Proto-West Germanic *þain, from Proto-Germanic *þainaz (“moist”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt, flow”). Cognate with Scots thane, thain (“moist, damp”). Related to thaw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θəʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn

Adjective

thone (comparative thoner or more thone, superlative thonest or most thone)

1. (dialectal) damp; moist; wet; soft from dampness.

   Synonyms: drenched, saturated, sodden; see also Thesaurus:wet

Alternative forms

• thoan
• thooan, thwooan (South Lancashire)

Derived terms

• thone-corn
• thone-wheat
• thoney/thony
• thonish

 

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• th'one

Contraction

thone

1. (obsolete) Contraction of the one.
   • 1615, William West, The First Part of Simboleography. […], London: […] Companie of Stationers, unnumbered page:

     This Indenture made ⁊c. Betweene ſir E. A. and dame M. his wife on thone party, and J. N. of ⁊c. and W. his wife on thother partie, Witneſſeth, that where the ſaid Sir E. A. ⁊ M. ſtand ſeiſed of, and in the manoꝛ of M. and of one capitall meſuage called E. and the sſite of demeane of the late diſſolued Monaſtery of E. in the county of W. and of diuers maſuages, lands, temenents, and hereditaments in E. S. A. and B. in the ſaid county of W.

See also

• thother

 

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “thone”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• ethno-, hoten, on the, oneth