Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗pron
plural of that
det
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryplural of that
From Middle English thos (“those”), alteration of tho pl (“the; those”), equivalent to tho (“the; those”) + -s (plural ending), partly by analogy with thes (“these”), whose final -s is original and not a plural ending. More at tho.
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- Inherited-form mentionthosenm
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