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Where did this come from? (Original Post) rug Apr 2011 OP
Well, no one really knows... enuegii Apr 2011 #1
lol Soylent Brice Dec 2011 #5
Emergent behavior. immoderate Apr 2011 #2
Better question I think TZ Apr 2011 #3
After your Daddy and Mommy met, and Daddy had to marry your mommy because she was lindysalsagal Dec 2011 #4
Probably a North Sea Gmc. pronoun Bolo Boffin Dec 2011 #6
I've never heard a word called 'North Sea Germanic' before muriel_volestrangler Dec 2011 #7
Ah, that's what Gmc. means! Bolo Boffin Dec 2011 #8

enuegii

(664 posts)
1. Well, no one really knows...
Thu Apr 28, 2011, 03:41 PM
Apr 2011

You might check in Religion & Spirituality--there are those there who claim to know for sure.

TZ

(42,998 posts)
3. Better question I think
Thu Apr 28, 2011, 03:41 PM
Apr 2011

Why is it here, because unlike most of the universe, that was not a random act....

lindysalsagal

(22,083 posts)
4. After your Daddy and Mommy met, and Daddy had to marry your mommy because she was
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 01:01 PM
Dec 2011

....sorry. Wrong question....

Bolo Boffin

(23,863 posts)
6. Probably a North Sea Gmc. pronoun
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 04:30 PM
Dec 2011

this

O.E. þis, neuter demonstrative pronoun and adj. (masc. þes, fem. þeos), probably from a North Sea Gmc. pronoun formed by combining the base *þa- (see that) with -s, which is probably identical with O.E. se "the" (representing here "a specific thing&quot , but it may be O.E. seo, imperative of see (v.) "to behold." Cf. O.S. these, O.N. þessi, Du. deze, O.Fris. this, O.H.G. deser, Ger. dieser. Once fully inflected, with 10 distinct forms (see table below); the oblique cases and other genders gradually fell away by 15c. The O.E. plural was þæs (nom. and acc.), which in Northern M.E. became thas, and in Midlands and Southern England became thos. The Southern form began to be used late 13c. as the plural of that (replacing M.E. tho, from O.E. þa) and acquired an -e (apparently from the influence of M.E. adj. plurals in -e; cf. alle from all, summe from sum "some&quot , emerging early 14c. as modern those. About 1175 thes (probably a variant of O.E. þæs) began to be used as the plural of this, and by 1200 it had taken the form these, the final -e acquired via the same mechanism that gave one to those.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=t&p=14&allowed_in_frame=0

muriel_volestrangler

(102,212 posts)
7. I've never heard a word called 'North Sea Germanic' before
Sun Dec 11, 2011, 04:39 PM
Dec 2011

it makes it sound like a bit of fishing jargon ...

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