thair

English

Etymology 1

Adverb

thair (comparative more thair, superlative most thair)

1. Archaic spelling of there.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

thair

1. Archaic spelling of their.

Related terms

• theirs

Anagrams

• Harti, Thira, Thíra, airth, tahri

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haɾʲ/

Verb

thair

1. Lenited form of tair.

Middle English

Determiner

thair

1. Alternative form of þeir

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [θarʲ]

Verb

thair

1. Lenited form of tair.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle Scots thar, from Middle English tharen, from Old English þearf, from Proto-Germanic *þarf, first and third person singular form of Proto-Germanic *þurbaną (“to need, require”), from Proto-Indo-European *terp- (“to satiate, satisfy”). Cognate with Dutch durf (“dare”, verb), German darf (“may”, verb), Norwegian tarv (“need”, verb), Icelandic þarf (“need”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θeːɹ/, /θɑːɹ/

Verb

thair (third-person singular simple present thair, simple past thurst, past participle thurst)

1. To need to; to be bound or obligated to do something.

   Ye thair nae ga.

   You don't need to go.

   Ye thurst nae scraugh sa lood.

   You didn't need to scream so loud.

References

“thair”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θai̯r/

Numeral

thair

1. Aspirate mutation of tair.

Mutation

Mutated forms of tair

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tair	dair	nhair	thair

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.