þanan

• þanon, þanone, þonan

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þananā; cognate with Old Saxon thanan, Old High German danan (German dannen).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɑ.nɑn/

þanan

1. thence; from there
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

     Wōst þū þonne gyt genōh be Gode, gyf hē þē byð cūð swā þē is nū þes mōnan færeld — on hwilcum tungle he nū is, oððe on hwilce hē þanon gēð?

     Wouldst thou then know enough about God, if He be to thee as couth as is now the moon's fare — on which constellation it now is? Or onto which goeth it thence?

   • "Gospel of Saint Luke", chapter 19, verse 4

     Þā arn hē beforan and stāh ūp on ān trēow. Sicomorum þ hē hine ġesāwe, forþām þe hē wolde þanon faran...

     Then ran he before [him] and stied up on a tree. From sycamores that he saw him, forthy that he would thence fare.

2. thereupon; after that
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     siþþan ġeāra iū · goldwine mīn(n)e
     hrusan heolstre biwrāh, · ond iċ hēan þonan
     wōd winterċeariġ · ofer waþema ġebind,

     since once, long ago, covered my goldfriend(s)
     with darkness of earth, and poor I thereupon
     traveled sad as winter over binding of waves,

• Middle English: þenne
  • ⇒ Middle English: þennes
    • English: thence
• →? Old Norse: þanan (calque)