thurgh

Middle English

Alternative forms
  • thruh, thorouȝ, thoruh, thuruh, thurh, thrugh, thruch, thoruȝ, þoruȝ

Etymology

From Old English þurh, þuruh, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw.

Preposition

thurgh

  1. through
    • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale.
      But for to speke of vertuous beautee,
      Thanne was she oon the faireste under sonne,
      For povreliche yfostred up was she,
      No likerous lust was thurgh hir herte yronne.

Descendants
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