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'''TH'''¹ a formative of ns. a. from verbs; in some [[words]], as bath, birth, death, math, oath, Old Teutonic., repr. various [[Indo-European]] suffixes, as -tos, -tâ, -tis, -tus, in which the t following the stressed syllable regularly became {th} in [[Teutonic]]; in others, as growth, tilth, going back to ON. or [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English].; in others, as blowth, spilth, stealth, of later [[analogy|analogical]] formation. In many words Indo-Eur. t remained in consequence of its position, or {th} was subsequently changed to t:
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