coalesced form of the other, frequent from 14th to 17th c.; in later time also written th’ other: see TH-, TH’.
Often used in contrast to THONE = the one: see THONE, ONE 18, 19, and TOTHER.
c. 1300. Beket, 466. Tho were thothere glad ynouȝ.
c. 1400. Trevisa’s Higden (Rolls), III. 65 (MS. γ). Þooþer wys men.
1534–5. MS. Rawl. D., 777, lf. 67 b. One of them in [etc.] and thoder in the hawpace.
1556. Knaresborough Wills (Surtees), I. 73. To my children thother half.
1633. T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., I. i. (1821), 11. On thother part.
