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Definition: Thou

Thou

Noun

1. The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "thou" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Thou \Thou\, pronoun [Sing.: nominative Thou; possesive Thyor Thine; obj. Thee. Pl.: nominative You; possesive Youror Yours; obj. You.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Thou

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

One thousandth of an inch. Source: European Union. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Thou

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This article is about the pronoun "thou": for the unit of length, see thou (unit).

Thou is the old second person singular pronoun of the English language. Thou is the nominative case; the oblique or accusative is thee, and the genitive is thy or thine. Thou is primarily unused in modern English apart from in some of the regional dialects of England and in some religious contexts. Otherwise, its contemporary use is a certain sign of deliberate archaism.

Etymology

Thou represents the expected outcome of Old English þú, which, with expected Germanic lengthening of the vowel in an open syllable, represents Indo-European *tu. Thou is therefore cognate with Latin, French, and Spanish tu. A cognate form of the pronoun exists in almost every other Indo-European language.

Usage

Thou has a set of verb forms that should accompany it if you wish to use it without solecism. These verb forms are generally characterised by the endings -st or -est. They are used in both the present tense and the preterite forms. These are used on both strong and weak verbs.

Strong verbs:
thou knowest
thou knew(e)st
thou drivest
thou drovest

Weak verbs:
thou makest
thou madest
thou lovest
thou loved(e)st

The forms used with the irregular verb to be are thou art and thou wast; with the irregular verb to have, thou hast and thou hadst; with the irregular verb do, thou dost; with the irregular verb shall, thou shalt; and with will, thou wilt.

The endings in -(e)st are omitted as usual in the subjunctive and imperative moods, except that thou wert is used in the past tense of the subjunctive:

If thou be Johan, I tell it thee, right with a good advice. . .;
Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart. . .
I do wish thou wert a dog, that I might love thee something. . .

Some later authors use thou be'st or thou best as a subjunctive:

If thou be'st born to strange sights. . . (John Collier);
If thou best a miller. . . thou art doubly a thief. (Sir Walter Scott)

This is not the way it was originally done in Middle English. Some later authors also use thou thinketh and similar forms with the old third person singular ending in -eth with thou. This is a mistake, and usually crops up in writing using thou in later parody.

Thee corresponds with the oblique or accusative form me in the first person, and is used as they are: as a direct or indirect object. Thy and thine correspond with my and mine. In the deliberately archaic style in which you might want to use thine, remember that the forms with /n/ are used before any word beginning with a vowel sound: thine eyes.

History

Before the Norman Conquest, thou was governed by a fairly simple rule. It did not differ in usage from ye/you; thou addressed a single person, ye more than one.

From French, English acquired the habit of addressing kings and other aristocrats in the plural. Eventually, this was generalised, as in French, to address any social superior or stranger with a plural pronoun, which was felt to be more polite. In French, it came to pass that tu was intimate, condescending, and to a stranger potentially insulting, while the plural form vous was reserved and formal. In languages that use pronouns this way, it is called the T-V distinction.

Something of this did appear in English. At the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Edward Coke, prosecuting for the Crown, reportedly sought to insult Raleigh by saying,

I thou thee, thou traitor!

here using thou as a verb meaning "to call thou." However, the practice never took root in English the way it did in French.

William Tyndale, seeking to preserve the singular and plural distinctions he found in his Hebrew and Greek originals, consistently used thou for the singular and ye for the plural regardless of the relative status of speaker and listener. By doing so, he probably saved thou from utter obscurity, and gave it an air of solemnity that sharply distinguished it from its French counterpart. Tyndale's usage was imitated in the King James Bible, and remained familiar because of that translation.

William Shakespeare occasionally seems to use thou in the intimate, French style sense, but he is by no means consistent in using the word that way, and friends and lovers call each other ye or you as often as they call each other thou. In Henry IV, Shakespeare has Falstaff mix up the two forms speaking to Prince Henry, the heir apparent and Falstaff's commanding officer, in the same lines of dialogue. It might be said here that the Prince combined the roles of prince and drinking companion:

PRINCE: Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldest truly know. What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? …

FALSTAFF: Indeed, you come near me now, Hal … And, I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art a king, as God save thy Grace " Majesty, I should say; for grace thou wilt have none -"

Thou had almost gone out of usage entirely in most English dialects by the year 1650. Its use in the Bible and in classical literature like Shakespeare gave thou an air of formality and solemnity. This usage has entirely dispelled any air of informal familiarity that might have hung around thou; it is used in solemn ritual occasions, in readings from the King James Bible, in Shakespeare, in starchily formal literary compositions that seek to evoke the solemn emotions called forth by these antecedents, and otherwise to address lofty persons like God, Achilles, or the Mighty Thor.

Quakers formerly used thee as an ordinary pronoun; the stereotype has them saying thee for both nominative and accusative cases. This was started by George Fox at the beginning of the Quaker movement as an attempt to preserve the egalitarian familiarity associated with the pronoun; it was not heard that way, and seemed instead to be an affected attempt at speaking like the King James Bible. Most Quakers have abandoned this usage.

More recently, the philosopher Martin Buber has been translated into English as using the words I and Thou to describe our ideal familiar relationship with the Deity. Because in English thou is actually more reserved and formal in actual practice, the translation does not convey the intended meaning well.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thou."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Thou

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

thou

EnglishThousandsMeteorology & Standards

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Thou

Synonyms: chiliad (n), grand (n), one thousand (n), thousand (n), yard (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Thou

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Existence

Phrase: ens rationis; ergo sum cogito: "thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?".

Hope

At spes non fracta; ego spem prietio non emo; un Dieu est ma fiance; " hope! thou nurse of young desire "; in hoc signo spes mea; in hoc signo vinces; la speranza e il pan de miseri; l'esperance est le songe d'un homme eveille; " the mighty hopes that make us men"; " the sickening pang of hope deferred ".

Ingratitude

Phrase: "ingraPhrase: "ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend ".

Intellect

Phrase: ens rationis; frons est animi janua; locos y ninos dicen la verdad; mens sola loco non exulat; " my mind is my kingdom "; " stern men with empires in their brains "; " the mind, the music breathing from her face "; " thou living ray of intellectual Fire ".

Pain

Phrase: "the iron entered into our soul"; haeret lateri lethalis arundo; one's heart bleeding; "down, thou climbing sorrow"; "mirth cannot move a soul in agony"; nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria; "sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things"; "the Niobe of Nations".

Perpetuity

Phrase: esto perpetuum; labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum; "but thou shall flourish in immortal youth"; "Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought"; "her immortal part with angels lives"; ohne Rast; ora e sempre.

Piety

Phrase: ne vile fano; "pure-eyed Faith.. thou hovering angel girt with golden wings".

Rite

Phrase: "what art thou, thou idol ceremony?".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Thou

English words defined with "thou": All in all, ArtowCan not choose but, Coat cardIn idlelamentablePersonal pronounThe light of the countenance, Thee, Thine, Thy, Thyself, To avise one's self, To be beside one's self, To be dead, To be in a pickle, To cast down, To draw out, To find out, To keep the foot, To play upon, To put on, To set the hand to, To use upverily. (references)
Specialty definitions using "thou": Absent, Actaeon, Advise, Agla, Anana, A-per-se, Arabian Bird, Auld HornieBaillif, Bird in thy Bosom, Boeotian Ears, BRAHMA, BucklersburyCacodæ'mon, Candles of the Night, Cat Proverbs, Coals of Fire, Colemira, Come to Pass, Cooper's Hill, Covetous Man, CrillonDavid and Jonathan, Decalogue, Dun in the Mire, Dunghill!, Dying SayingsExceptFather Thames, Female, Flatterers, Flowers and Trees with Christian TraditionsGall of Bitterness, GodfathersHare-stone, Hogs-Norton, Hope , Hope-on-High Bomby, HumphreyJack o' the Clock, JephthahKeep TouchLamp of Heaven, Laugh on the Other Side of Your Mouth, Leave some for Manners, Lie with One's Fathers, Lisbo'a, Lyme-houndMagic Rings, Martin of Bullions, Matter's afoot, Maunciples Tale, Mind your Own Business, Misnomers, Mixed Pronouns, MorosPantagruel', Persuade, Philips, Physician, heal Thyself, Pick a Hole in his CoatQueubusRemigius, reporter, Rhodian Bully, Roodselken, RouenSabbath, satire, Saucer Eyes, SCIMETAR, Slubber-Degullion, Soft Words Butter no Parsnips, Sortes Virgilianae, Strangers Sacrificed, Swear by my SwordWater of Jealousy, Welsh Ambassador, Wet Finger. (references)
Etymologies containing "thou": Have. (references)

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Modern Usage: Thou

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The cars are gone, the buyers want their deposits back, they all do. That's eighty thou, Charlie (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

Thou that smelled it thine own self dealt it. (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin)

Why, Romeo, art thou mad (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

Canst thou not see the four great arms whirling at his back (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman)

Whither thou goest, I shall go. Until I get at least a thousand in my pocket (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: David Greenwalt)

Movie/TV Titles

Thou Shalt Not Kill (1970)

The Child Thou Gavest Me (1921)

Thou Art the Man (1920)

The Woman Thou Gavest Me (1919)

Whither Thou Goest (1917)

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Commercial Usage: Thou

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: Thou

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Thou

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Thou lazy varlet! late again. Credit: Library of Congress.

Whatsoever wouldst thou ask, Salome?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wife of formerly rehabilitation client. Now operating own farm under Tenant Purchase Act. A year and a half ahead on their payments. Family labor harvesting milo maize. Average loan for purchase of farm and improvements in San Joaquin County is seven thou. Credit: Library of Congress.

The 12th Commandment : Thou shalt not hassle. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Familiar Quotations: Thou

AuthorQuotation

Colley Cibber

Thou strange piece of wild nature!

Emily Dickinson

Where thou art, that is home.

Francois Rabelais

Do what thou wilt.

George Herbert

Be useful where thou livest.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Resolve and thou art free.
Resolve, and thou art free.

John Dryden

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

Miguel De Cervantes

Thou hast seen nothing yet.
Think before thou speakest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Thou

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

Also (say they) in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that reddest out and broughtest in Israel, and the Lord said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Thou

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Yet, if death be in this cup, I bid thee think again, ere thou beholdest me quaff it.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Thou hast Ionian lips

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Lead us still as thou hast led.

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend As closely to conceal what we impart

Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare

Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-diner's sleep, dreaming on both

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Non-Fiction Usage: Thou

SubjectTopicQuote

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J.

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Usage Frequency: Thou

"Thou" is generally used as a pronoun (personal) -- approximately 95.40% of the time. "Thou" is used about 760 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Pronoun (personal)95.4%7259,302
Unclassified Items4.6%3558,339
                    Total100.00%760N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Thou

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "thou".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
EliathahN/ABiblical

Thou art my God

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Expression: Thou

Expressions using "thou": thou doest thou shalt thou wast. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "thou": thou-shalt-nots.

Ending with "thou": i-thou.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thou

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

o brother where art thou

339

jabberwock slain thou

10

how great thou art

164

holier than thou

10

oh brother where art thou

139

art great midi thou

10

be thou my vision

74

art brother o odyssey thou where

10

woman thou art loosed

56

kill not shall thou

9

art great lyrics thou

55

thou shalt not kill

9

o brother where art thou soundtrack

40

art great thou words

9

art brother lyrics o thou where

36

how great thou art sheet music

8

brother where art thou

25

art conference loose thou woman

7

lyrics thou vision

22

2003 art conference loosed thou woman

7

great thou

22

art brother o thou wallpaper where

7

come thou fount

21

come fount lyrics thou

6

art brother oh soundtrack thou where

20

goest thou whither

6

blessing come every fount thou

20

hast jabberwock thou

6

art brother lyrics oh thou where

20

loosed thou woman

5

thou

18

art brother o thou

5

2003 art loosed thou woman

15

art chord great thou

5

art loose thou woman

14

brother oh thou where

5

art conference loosed thou woman

13

fav pic thou

5

o brother where are thou

13

o brother where art thou music

5

art thou where

11

art great mp3 thou

5
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Modern Translation: Thou

Language Translations for "thou"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

jy (ye, you), jou (thee, to, to thee, to you, ye, you, your). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

ti (of you, thee, ye, you). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏خاطبه بهذه الصيغة, ‏أنت (you). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хиляда (chiliad, mil, thousand), хил., ти (thee, ye, you, yourself). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

tu (you), vostè (you), vosaltres (ye, you). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(like that, so, thus, you), , ' , (minister, term of endearment between spouses). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ty (the, ye, you). (various references)

   

Danish

  

du (ye, you, you familiar). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

je (one, thee, they, ye, you, your). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

vi (you), ci (you). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

tygum (ye, you), tit (ye, you), (one, they, ye, you). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

یک هزاردلار, توبکسی خطاب کردن , تو (Inside). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sinä (ye, you), 1/1000 tuumaa (mil, milli-inch). (various references)

   

French

  

tu, toi (thee). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

jo (ye, you, your), dy (that, that one, ye, yonder, you), do (dove, pigeon, ye, you), (ye, you). (various references)

   

German

  

du (ye, you). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Mil (mil, milli-inch), ένα χιλιοστό της ίντσας (mil, milli-inch), σύ (you), εσύ (you). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

ti (ye, you), ju (ye, you). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

את" (you). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

te (ye, you). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

við (at, we, with, with/at, with/by, ye, you). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kau (ye, you), engkau (ye, you). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tu (ye, you). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

爾汝 (you). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じじょ (authors preface, autobiography, boys and girls, lady attendant, maid, order, second daughter, self-help, system, you). (various references)

   

Lombard

  

ti (ye, you). (various references)

   

Manx

  

uss (thee, thee emph, you, yourself), oo (thee, you). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

du (ye, you). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

señora (lady, madam, Mrs., wife, ye, you), señor (gentleman, lord, Mister, Mr., sir, ye, you), mener (gentleman, lord, Mister, Mr., sir, ye, you), boso (ye, you, your), bo (ye, you, your), aboso (ye, you), abo (ye, you). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

outhay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

ty (ye, you), wy (ye, you), panna (Miss, spinster, unmarried woman, ye, you), pani (ye, you), pan (gentleman, lord, Mr., ye, you). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

tu (you, you informal). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tu (thyself, ye, you, yourself). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

хотя (albeit, although, notwithstanding, though), ты (ye, you). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

tu, thu, thu (and <A NAME="thù">thù</A> pers.pron. thou and you;, ye, you), sibh (ye, you). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ti (tee, thee, ye, you). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

(ye, you), vosotros (ye, you, yourselves), vosotras (ye, you, yourselves), ustedes (ye, you), usted (ye, you), mil (mil, one thousand, thousand). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

i (ye, you). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

wewe (ye, you). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

du (ye, yer, you). (various references)

   

Thai

  

หนึ่งพัน, คุ". (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sen (thee, ye, you). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ти (you). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ngươi, mi. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

tydi (thyself), ti (thee, you). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

wena (ye, you), u- (he, she, ye, you), ni- (ye, you). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Thou

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Avestan200-600

tûm, tvêm. (various references)

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Bible Trace: Thou

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 1, Verse 10
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintUie mh se planhswsin andreV asebeiV mhde boulhqhV ean parakaleswsi se legonteV
Latin405VulgateFili mi si te lactaverint peccatores ne adquiescas
Middle English1395WyclifMy sone, if thee synneres fulfille with mylc, ne assente thou to them.
Jacobean English1611King JamesMy son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Victorian English1833WebsterMy son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Basic English1964OgdenMy son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

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Matched Bible Translations: Thou

LanguageProverbs Chapter 1, Verse 10
Cebuano&para; Anak ko, kong ang mga makasasala mag-ulog-ulog kanimo, Ayaw pag-uyon kanila.
Chinese我 ' 、 惡 人 若 引 誘 、 不 可 隨 從 。
CroatianSine moj, ako te grešnici mame, ne pristaj;
DanishMin Søn, sig nej, når Syndere lokker!
DutchMijn zoon! indien de zondaars u aanlokken, bewillig niet;
FinnishPoikani, jos synnintekijät sinua viekoittelevat, älä suostu.
FrenchMon fils, si des pécheurs veulent te séduire, Ne te laisse pas gagner.
GermanMein Kind, wenn dich die bösen Buben locken, so folge nicht.
Haitian Creole¶ Pitit mwen, lè moun k'ap fè sa ki mal vle detounen ou, pa kite yo pran tèt ou.
HungarianFiam, ha a bûnösök el akarnak csábítani téged: ne fogadd beszédöket.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKalau orang berdosa membujuk engkau, anakku, janganlah turuti bujukan mereka.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaHai anakku! jikalau orang jahat membujuk akan dikau, janganlah engkau turut akan dia.
ItalianFiglio mio, se i peccatori ti vogliono traviare, non acconsentire!
Korean내 아 " 아 악 한 자 가 너 를 꾈 지 라 도 좇 지 말 라
Maori¶ E taku tama, ki te whakawaia koe e te hunga hara, kaua e whakaae.
NorwegianMin sønn! Når syndere lokker dig, da samtykk ikke!
PortugueseFilho meu, se os pecadores te quiserem seduzir, não consintas.   
RumanianFiule, dacq niwte pqcqtowi vor sq te amqgeascq, nu te lqsa ckwtigat de ei!
RussianуЩО НПК! ЕУМЙ 'Х"ХФ УЛМПОСФШ ФЕ'С ЗТЕЫОЙЛЙ, ОЕ УПЗМБЫБКУС;
SpanishHijo mío, si los pecadores te quisieran persuadir, no lo consientas.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Thou

Derivations

Words beginning with "thou": thoued, though, thought, thoughtful, thoughtfully, thoughtfulness, thoughtfulnesses, thoughtless, thoughtlessly, thoughtlessness, thoughtlessnesses, thoughts, thoughtway, thoughtways, thouing, thous, thousand, thousandfold, thousands, thousandth, thousandths. (additional references)

Words containing "thou": aforethought, afterthought, afterthoughts, although, aphthous, bethought, boathouse, boathouses, cathouse, cathouses, courthouse, courthouses, forethought, forethoughtful, forethoughtfully, forethoughtfulness, forethoughtfulnesses, forethoughts, guesthouse, guesthouses, hothouse, hothouses, lighthouse, lighthouses, merrythought, merrythoughts, methought, misthought, nuthouse, nuthouses, oasthouse, oasthouses, outhouse, outhouses, outthought, overthought, penthouse, penthouses, pesthouse, pesthouses, pilothouse, pilothouses, pothouse, pothouses, prognathous, rethought, unthought, watthour, watthours, without, withoutdoors. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Thou" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Htoo, khou, tahoo, tghou, thau, thaum, Thiounn, thoar, thob, thod, thoe, thog, thok, thol, thom, thoob, thop, thor, thot, thoud, thoug, thouh, thous, thout, thow, throu, thu, thuo, Tjuo, Toha, Tohou, tohue, tou, trou, tuoh, tvoeu, twou. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Thou

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-o-t-u"

-1 letter: hot, hut, out, tho.

-2 letters: ho, oh, to, uh, ut.

 Words containing the letters "h-o-t-u"
 

+1 letter: couth, mouth, ought, quoth, routh, shout, south, thous, touch, tough, youth.

 

+2 letters: author, bought, couths, dought, drouth, fought, fourth, hognut, mahout, mouths, mouthy, nought, oughts, outhit, quotha, rouths, scouth, shouts, sought, souths, thoued, though, tophus, touche, touchy, toughs, toughy, trough, upshot, youths.

 

+3 letters: abought, authors, beshout, brought, cothurn, couther, couthie, doughty, drought, drouths, drouthy, fourths, foxhunt, futhorc, futhork, gunshot, handout, hangout, hautboy, hideout, hognuts, holdout, holibut, hotspur, loutish, mahouts, mouthed, mouther, mugshot, noughts, oughted, outchid, outecho, outfish, outgush, outhaul, outhear, outhits, outhowl, outhunt, outpush, outrush, outshot, outwash, outwish, prutoth, retouch, scouths, shotgun, shouted, shouter, shutoff, shutout, southed, souther, succoth, sukkoth, thorium, thought, thouing, through, touched, toucher, touches, touchup, toughed, toughen, tougher, toughie, toughly, troughs, typhous, uncouth, upshoot, upshots, upthrow, urolith, washout, without, wrought, yoghurt, youthen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency
13. Names: Derived from
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Bible Trace
19. Abbreviations
20. Acronyms
21. Derivations
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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