þæge

• þage

Likely a late borrowing from Old Norse þeir (“they, those”), from Proto-Germanic *þai (“they, those”), making it a doublet of native þā (“those”). Compare English they, a later (c. 1200s) borrowing from the same Old Norse source.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθæ.je/

þæġe m or n

1. they, these; those, them

   Þæġe twēġen dagas

   These two days

   • The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn

     Saga mē, hwæt hātton ðaġe?

     Tell me, what are they called?

• Occurs exclusively in a small number of Late West Saxon texts as a synonym of the more common þā and þās (i.e. in the accusative feminine singular and nominative/accusative plural).

• Middle English: þaie
• Middle English: þaye

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “þæge”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.