þó
See also: þo
Icelandic
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editConjunction
editþó
- though, even though
Usage notes
editPrescriptivist recommendation is to always use þó að instead of þó, particularly in writing. This recommendation is however not widely followed or recognized.
Adverb
editþó
- still, yet
- used when scolding a person (usually in particular children), preceded by that person's name
- Anna þó! Það er harðbannað að slá fólk! ― Anna! Hitting people is strictly forbidden!
Derived terms
editOld Norse
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Germanic *þauh (“nevertheless, though”).
Adverb
editþó
- nevertheless, still, yet
- þó mun ek eigi neitta þér
- yet I will not deny thee
- 800s, Anonymous, Hávamǫ́l (‘the speeches of the High One’), stanza 36
- Bú es bętra, / þótt lítit sé,
halr es hęima hvęrr;
þótt tvær gęitr ęigi / ok taugręptan sal,
þat es þó bętra an bǿn.- A homestead is better, though little it be; each is a man at home; though two goats he own, and a cord-roofed hall, that is yet better than begging.
- however
Conjunction
editþó
Derived terms
editDescendants
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editþó
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