þó

From Old Norse þó.

• IPA^(key): /θouː/
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): [ðou]

Rhymes: -ouː

þó

1. (sometimes proscribed, verb in the subjunctive) though, even though

   Synonyms: þó að, þótt

• Prescriptivist recommendation is to always use þó að instead of þó, particularly in writing. This recommendation is however not widely followed or recognized.

• þó að

• þótt

þó

1. still, yet
2. 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!

• og þó (“hmm, or does it?”) (indicates uncertainty)
• þónokkur (“some considerable amount”)

From Proto-Germanic *þauh (“nevertheless, though”).

þó

1. 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.

2. however

þó

1. although, even though

• þótt

• Icelandic: þó
• Faroese: tó
• Norwegian Nynorsk: do
• Old Swedish: þō
• Old Gutnish: þau

þó

1. first-person/third-person singular past indicative active of þvá