þeim

See also: theim

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eiːm

Pronoun

þeim

  1. (personal pronoun): them, dative plural form of hann meaning "he"
  2. (personal pronoun): them, dative plural form of hún meaning "she"
  3. (personal pronoun): them, dative plural form of það meaning "it"


Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronoun

þeim

  1. Alternative form of þem (“them”)

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þaimaz, dative plural of *sa (“that”). Cognate with Old English þǣm, þām, Old Saxon them, Old High German dem, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐌼 (þaim).

Pronoun

þeim

  1. masculine dative singular of sá
  2. dative plural of sá

Declension



Descendants

  • Icelandic: þeim
  • Faroese: teimum
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: deim
  • Old Swedish: þem, them
  • Danish: dem
    • Norwegian Bokmål: dem
  • → Middle English: þem
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