Re: th

Quoth Tom Wier:
> Don Blaheta wrote:
>=20
> > Quoth Ed Heil:
> > > You're very right -- my bad.  I think I may have meant that it only
> > > appears *word-initially* in that class of words (the, there, then,
> > > this...  I can't think of anything that isn't demosntrative-like with
> > > a word-initial [D], can you?)  Silly me.
> >
> > Aside from "thus", there are the obscure and archaic: theve (=3D smell)
> > and theine (=3D wait upon) (courtesy Padraic).
>=20
> Is the last related with <thegn> /Tein/, an Anglo-Saxon feudal vassal?
Presumably.  Actually, wait, here's what the oed sez:

   theine
          theine,
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   theign
          theign, v. Obs. Forms: 1-2 =FEe(asg)nian (1 =F0=E6(asg)n-), =FE=E9nian,
          2 *=FEegnoz [2]thane.] intr. To be a servant or minister, to
          perform the duties of an office. With dative: To minister to,
          wait or attend upon, serve. (a person); hence, quasi-trans.

So apparently, yes.

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Accident, n.:
        A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of
body is better.