-th

See also: th, Th, TH, 'th, th', .th, th-, and Appendix:Variations of "th"

English

Alternative forms

-t

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /-θ/

Etymology 1

From Middle English -th, -t, from Old English -þ, -t, -þu, -tu, -þo, -to (“-th”, abstract nominal suffix), from Proto-Germanic *-iþō, from Proto-Indo-European *-iteh₂. Cognate with Scots -th, West Frisian -te, Dutch -te, Danish -de, Swedish -d, Icelandic -ð, -d, Gothic -𐌹𐌸𐌰 (-iþa), Latin -itās (“-ty, -ity”). See -ity, -t.

Suffix

-th

(no longer productive) Forming nouns from verbs of action.
berth, birth, blowth, drawth, flowth, growth, health, sight, spilth, stealth, theft, weight
(no longer productive) Forming nouns from adjectives.
breadth, coolth, dampth, dearth, depth, filth, height/heighth, length, roomth, ruth, strength, troth, truth, sloth/slowth, warmth, wealth, width, wrath, wrength, youth/youngth,

Synonyms

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Etymology 2

Representing Old English -þa, -þe, -oþa, -oþe, derived from a Proto-Indo-European superlative suffix.

Suffix

-th

Used to form the ordinal numeral when the final term of the spelled number is not “first”, “second”, or “third”.
the 4th/Fourth of July

Coordinate terms

Translations

used to form the ordinal numeral

Armenian: -րդ (hy) (-rd), -երորդ (-erord)
Breton: -vet (br)
Catalan: -è (ca), -èsim
Chinese:
Mandarin: 第... (zh) (dì...)
Finnish: -s (fi)
French: -ième (fr)
Galician: -ésimo m
German: (indefinite) -ter m, (or any gender after a definite article) -te f, (indefinite) -tes n
Hebrew: ־י‎‎ (-i)
Hindi: -वां (-vā̃)
Ido: -esma
Indonesian: ke-
Irish: -ú
Old Irish: -mad
Italian: -esimo (it), -to (4, 5, 6), -imo (7, 10)
Japanese: 第... (ja) (だい..., dai...), ...目 (ja) (...め, ...me)
Khmer: ទី- (km) (tii-)

Korean: -째 (ko) (jjae), 제- (ko) (je)
Lao: ທີ່- (thī-)
Malay:
Jawi: ک-‎‎

Rumi: ke-
Marathi: -वा (-vā)
Persian: ـم‎‎ (fa) (-om)
Polish: -y (pl) m, -ty m
Portuguese: -ésimo (productive; 20, 30, 40, …, 100, 1000, 1000000, …), -eiro (pt) (1, 3, 11, 13, 21, 23, 31, 33, …), -to (4, 5, 6, 14, 15, 16, …), -avo (8, 18, 28, …), -imo (7, 10, 11, 20, 30, 40, …)
Russian: (various endings exist) -ый (ru) (-yj), -о́й (ru) m (-ój), -ий (ru) m (-ij)
Spanish: -ero (es) (1, 3, 11, 13, 21, 23, 31, 33, ...), -to (es) (4, 5, 6, 14, 15, 16, 24, 25, 26, ...), -avo (es) (8, 18, 28, ...), -imo (7, 10, 11, 12), -ésimo (20, 30, 40, 50, ... 100, ...)
Swedish: -te (sv), -de (sv)
Tajik: -ум (-um)
Thai: ที่- (th) (tîi)
Turkish: -inci, -nci (tr), -ıncı, -ncı (tr), -üncü, -uncu
Vietnamese: thứ ... (vi)
Welsh: -fed, -ed, -ydd (cy), -edd

Etymology 3

Representing Old English -eþ, -aþ, -þ.

Suffix

-th

(archaic) A variant of -eth, used to form the archaic third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs.
come → cometh

have → hath

do → doth

say → saith

Anagrams

HT, h/t, ht

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