þes

• thes

From Old English þēs, þēos, þis.

• IPA^(key): /θeːs/, /ðeːs/, /ˈθeːz(ə)/, /ˈðeːz(ə)/

þes

1. these

• þese, þece, þez, þeze, þeis, þeise, þis, þise, þeys, þeyse, þys, þyse, dese, dyse, þiȝe, þyȝe, tys, yece, yese, yesse, yeis, yeys, yeise, yeyse, yeus, yhese, yise, yisse, yies, yiese, ȝese, ȝeyse, ȝise, ȝyse
• þies, þiese, þyes, þyese (Northern); þiez, yes, yis, þyez (East Anglia); þeos, þeose (West Midland); þeos, þeose (Southwest Midland); þæs (early Southwest Midland); þeus, þeuse, þus, þuse (Southwest)
• tes (Early Middle English, following t); teos (early Southwest, following d)

þes

1. these

• þese, þesse, þez, þeis, þeise, þis, þise, þies, þiese, þiez, þeys, þeyse, þys, þyse, þyes, þyese, þyez
• þeos, þeose, þuse, þeus, þues (Southwest)
• þeos, þeose, þuse (Southwest Midland)

• English: these
• Middle Scots: thais, thois, theis

• “thēs(e, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “thēs(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

þes

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of þas (“the, that, this”)

þes

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of þas (“of that, of this”)

þes

1. alternative form of þis (“this”)

þes

1. alternative form of þis (“this”)

þes

1. alternative form of þis (“this”)

From West Germanic, the base being *þes-, from Proto-West Germanic *þat, from Proto-Germanic *þat.

Cognate with Old Frisian thīs, Old High German dese, Old Norse þessi.

• IPA^(key): /θeːs/

þēs (demonstrative)

1. this
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Forþon iċ ġeþenċan ne mæġ · ġeond þās woruld
     for hwan mōdsefa(n) · mīn(ne) ġesweorce

     Thus I cannot think over through this world
     why would (not) my heart darken

þēs (demonstrative)

1. this

In later language the feminine genitive, dative, and instrumental singular is also þissere, þisre, and the genitive plural is also þissera, þisra.