thone

== 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) (dialectal) damp; moist; wet; soft from dampness. Synonyms: drenched, saturated, sodden; see also Thesaurus:wet ===== Alternative forms ===== thoan thooan, thwooan (South Lancashire) ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Alternative forms ==== th'one ==== Contraction ==== thone (obsolete) Contraction of the one. ==== See also ==== === 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-, on the, oneth