thurgh

Middle English

Alternative forms

• thruh, thorouȝ, thoruh, thuruh, thurh, thrugh, thruch, thoruȝ, þoruȝ, trugh

Etymology

From Old English þurh, þuruh, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θurx/, /θurux/

Preposition

thurgh

1. through
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     But for to speke of vertuous beautee,
     Thanne was she oon the faireste under sonne,
     For povreliche yfostred up was she,
     No likerous lust was thurgh hir herte yronne.

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Descendants

• English: through, thorough
• Scots: throuch, thorow
• Yola: trugh, draugh

References

• “thurgh, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.