þó

From Old Norse þó.

• IPA^(key): /θouː/

  Rhymes: -ouː

þó

1. though, even though

Prescriptivist recommendation is to always use þó að instead of þó, in particular in writing. This recommendation is however not widely followed or recognized.

þó

1. still, yet
2. used when scolding a person (usually in particular children), preceded by that person's name

   Anna þó! Það er harðbannað að slá fólk! ― Anna! Hitting people is strictly forbidden!

• og þó (“hmm, or does it?”) (indicates uncertainty)
• þónokkur (“some considerable amount”)

From Proto-Germanic *þauh (“nevertheless, though”).

þó

1. nevertheless, still, yet

   þó mun ek eigi neitta þér

   yet I will not deny thee

   • 800s, Anonymous, Hávamǫ́l (‘the speeches of the High One’), stanza 36

     Bú es bętra, / þótt lítit sé,
     halr es hęima hvęrr;
     þótt tvær gęitr ęigi / ok taugręptan sal,
     þat es þó bętra an bǿn.

     A homestead is better, though little it be; each is a man at home; though two goats he own, and a cord-roofed hall, that is yet better than begging.

2. however

þó

1. although, even though

• þótt

• Icelandic: þó
• Faroese: tó
• Norwegian Nynorsk: do
• Old Swedish: þō
• Old Gutnish: þau

þó

1. first-person/third-person singular past indicative active of þvá