thurgh

Middle English

Alternative forms

thruh, thorouȝ, thoruh, thuruh, thurh, thrugh, thruch, thoruȝ, þoruȝ, trugh

Etymology

From Old English þurh, þuruh, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /θurx/, /θurux/

Preposition

thurgh

through
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
  But for to speke of vertuous beautee,
  Thanne was she oon the faireste under sonne,
  For povreliche yfostred up was she,
  No likerous lust was thurgh hir herte yronne.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

English: through, thorough
Scots: throuch, thorow
Yola: trugh, draugh

References

“thurgh, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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