Re: th

Don Blaheta wrote:

> 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 (= smell)
> and theine (= wait upon) (courtesy Padraic).
Is the last related with <thegn> /Tein/, an Anglo-Saxon feudal vassal?