þær

From Old Norse þær.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθaiːr/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [ðair].

Rhymes: -aiːr

þær f pl

1. (personal pronoun): they (referring to an all-female group), nominative plural of the word hún (“she”)

   Þær elska þær.

   They (the girls) love them (the girls).

2. (personal pronoun): them (referring to an all-female group), accusative plural of the word hún (“she”)

   Þær elska þær.

   They (the girls) love them (the girls).

• þār — Late West Saxon
• þēr — Anglian
• ðǣr — edh spelling

From Proto-West Germanic *þār, from Proto-Germanic *þar, whence also Old High German dār, Old Norse þar.

• IPA^(key): /θæːr/

þǣr (West Saxon, early Kentish)

1. there
   • c. 1011, "Byrhtferth's Manual", line 125

     Nu þǣr ys an to lafe; gif þære Aprili.

     Now there is one left; give that April.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Maur, Abbot"

     Þā ġecwæð sē abbod and ealle þā ġebrōðra þæt þēr ne mihte nā mā muneca wunian...

     Then said the abbot and all the brothers, that no more monks could dwell there...

2. where
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Passion of the Apostles Peter and Paul"

     Simon, ðaða he ðam folce ætwunden wæs, getígde ænne ormǽtne ryððan innan ðam geate þǣr Petrus inn hæfde, þæt he fǽrlice hine abítan sceolde.

     Simon, when he had escaped from the people, tied a huge mastiff within the gate where Peter had his dwelling, that he might suddenly devour him.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Purification of St. Mary"

     Uton fon nu on þæt godspel ðǣr we hit ǣr forlēton.

     Let us now resume the gospel where we previously left it.

   • c. 994, Ælfric, The Seasons of the Year:

     Wē hātaþ ānne dæġ fram sunnan upgange oþ ǣfen, ac swā þēah is on bōcum ġeteald tō ānum dæġe fram þǣre sunnan upgange oþ þæt hēo eft becume þǣr hēo ǣr upp stāg. On þām fæce sind ġetealda fēower and twentiġ tīda.

     To us a day means from sunrise to sunset, but in books, one day is considered to last from when the sun rises to when it returns to where it started from. In that interval there are considered to be 24 hours.

• þǣrin
• þǣrtō

• þáʀ, ᚦᛆᛧ (þaʀ) — Old East Norse
  •  þār — Old Swedish
•  þar — Old Gutnish

From Proto-Norse ᚦᛡᛁᛡᛉ (þᴀiᴀʀ), from Proto-Germanic *þôz (“they, those”), plural feminine of *sa (“that”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌸𐍉𐍃 (þōs).

þær

1. they, them (third-person nominative and accusative plural feminine personal pronoun)
2. those (nominative and accusative plural feminine demonstrative pronoun)

• Icelandic: þær
• Faroese: tær

þær

1. alternative form of þar

From Proto-Norse *ᚦᛖᛉ (*þeʀ), Proto-Germanic *þiz, dative of *þū.

þær

1. dative of þū