thoo

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Preposition ==== thoo (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of through, representing African-American Vernacular English. ===== Usage notes ===== Historically also used in white Southern US speech but now rare there. === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronoun ==== thoo (Orkney) Thou; singular informal form of you. ===== Usage notes ===== Historically also used north of the Humber-Lune line in (Northern) England, but now rare there. === Anagrams === Hoot, Htoo, OTOH, hoot, otoh, toho == Fingallian == === Etymology === From Middle English þeou, þeu, þou, from Old English þū,from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū (“you (singular), thou”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you, thou”). === Pronoun === thoo thou == Scots == === Pronoun === thoo (objective case thee, vocative thee, possessive determiner thee) Orkney form of thou ==== Usage notes ==== thoo is used to address a friend, a family member or someone younger. === Further reading === Flaws, Margaret; Lamb, Gregor (1996), The Orkney Dictionary, Kirkwall, Orkney: Orkney Language and Culture Group, published 2001, →ISBN