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You can make 16 words from thew according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of thew

thew htew tehw ethw hetw ehtw thwe htwe twhe wthe hwte whte tewh etwh tweh wteh ewth weth hewt ehwt hwet whet ewht weht

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word thew. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in thew.

Definitions and meaning of thew

thew

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θjuː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /θ(j)u/
• Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

From Middle English theu, thew (“way of behaving towards others, bearing, manners; habit, practice; good manners, courtesy; characteristic act; characteristic, trait; custom, tradition; established rule, ordinance; injunction; moral character; (in the plural) set of moral principles, morals; moral quality, virtue or vice; might, power, strength”) [and other forms] (often in the plural form theus, thewes), from Old English þēaw (“general practice of a community, custom, usage; mode of conduct, behaviour, manner; (in the plural) customs, virtue”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *þauw, from Proto-Germanic *þawwaz (“custom; habit”); further etymology uncertain, tentatively identified by the Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (Etymological Dictionary of Old High German) as a reflex of an s-less variant of Proto-Indo-European *(s)tāu-, *(s)te- (“to stand; to place”), from *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”).

Noun

thew (plural thews)

1. (archaic, chiefly in the plural, also figuratively)
   1. An attractive physical attribute; also, physical, mental, or moral strength or vigour.
   2. An aspect of the body which indicates physical strength; hence, muscle and/or sinew; muscular development.
2. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural)
   1. A way of behaving; hence, a characteristic, a trait.
   2. (specifically) A good characteristic or habit; a virtue.

Derived terms

• thewful (obsolete)
• thewless
• thewness
• thewsome
• thewy

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English theuen, thewe (“to instruct in morals or values; to teach, train”) [and other forms], from theu, thew (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs).

Verb

thew (third-person singular simple present thews, present participle thewing, simple past and past participle thewed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To instruct (someone) in morals or values; also (more generally) to chastise or discipline (someone); to teach or train (someone).

Derived terms

• thewed (adjective)
• thewedly (obsolete, rare)

References

Further reading

• thew (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• whet

Middle English

Noun

thew (plural thewes)

1. aspect, trait, thew

Tapayuna

Etymology

From Proto-Northern Jê *tep (“fish”) < Proto-Cerrado *tep (“fish”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈʈʰɛp̚]

Noun

thew

1. Form of thewe (utterance-medial variant)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /θeːu̯/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /θɛu̯/

Adjective

thew

1. Aspirate mutation of tew.

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