thother

English

Alternative forms

• th'other

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English thother.

Contraction

thother

1. (obsolete) Contraction of the other.
   • [1562–1565 (date written), Thomas Smyth [i.e., Thomas Smith], “The Diuision of the Parts and Persons of the Common Wealth”, in De Republica Anglorum. The Maner of Gouernement or Policie of the Realme of England, […] (in English), London: […] Henrie Midleton for Gregorie Seton, published 1583, →OCLC, pages 19–20:

     Another the like was among the Romanes of Patricij & plebes, thone [the one] ſtriuing with thother a long time, the patricij many yeares excluding the plebes from bearing rule, vntill at laſt all magiſtrates were made cõmon [common] betweene thẽ [them]: […]]

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 7:

     But th'other halfe did womans ſhape retaine, / Moſt lothſom, filthie, foule, and full of vile diſdaine.

See also

• thone
• tother

 

References

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

Middle English

Contraction

thother

1. the other