þó

See also: þo

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse þó.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θouː/

  Rhymes: -ouː

Conjunction

þó

1. though, even though

Usage notes

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

Adverb

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!

Derived terms

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

Old Norse

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

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

Conjunction

þó

1. although, even though

Derived terms

• þótt

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

Verb

þó

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