coalesced form of the one, frequent in 16th c.: see TH-, TH’.
Chiefly used in contrast with THOTHER = the other.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., E.’s Pref. He had mingled the saiynges … thone with thother.
c. 1566. Merie Tales of Skelton, in Wks. (1843), I. p. lix. If any scoler had fallen out thone with thother, the one woulde call thother Swanborn.
1594. West, 2nd Pt. Symbol., § 43. Because thone hath trespassed more than thother, he shall pay to thother, x. s.
