Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗At that time. · Soon afterward. · Next in order of place. · In addition; also; besides.
That time.
Being so at that time.
Obsolete spelling of than. · Misspelling of than.
From Middle English then(ne), than(ne), from Old English þonne, þanne, þænne (“then, at that time”), from Proto-West Germanic *þan, from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that (time), then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”). Cognate with Dutch dan (“then”), German dann (“then”), Swedish då (“then”), Icelandic þá (“then”). Doublet of than.
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