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The spelling th commonly produces 2 sounds in English pronunciation /θ/ and /ð/. Both are fricatives and made with the tongue behind the teeth: /θ/ is voiceless, it is made only with air, whereas /ð/ is voiced; it is made with vibration of the vocal cords. Some examples of words with each sound are:
Adjective suffix. Middle English -the, -te, from Old English -tha, -ta; akin to Old High German -do -th, Latin -tus, Greek -tos, Sanskrit -tha. Noun suffix. Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German -ida, suffix forming abstract nouns, Latin -ta, Greek -tē, Sanskrit -tā. Symbol (2)
The most logical use of th is to represent a consonant cluster of the phonemes /t/ and /h/, as in English knighthood. This is not a digraph, since a digraph is a pair of letters representing a single phoneme or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the separate characters.
Learn and practice the th sound! Help the wizards to make th words in this fun Phonics guide from BBC Bitesize.
cognate with Gothic -itha, Latin -tus, Greek -tos Middle English -th ( e ), Old English -thu, -tho, -th (variant -t after a velar, f, or s) -th2 , a suffix used in the formation of ordinal numbers (fourth, tenth), in some cases, added to altered stems of the cardinal (fifth; twelfth).
Words Starting with TH: THA, thack, thacker, thae, Thai, thairm, thairms, Thais, thak, Thakur, Thakurs, thalami.
In English, the digraph th usually represents either the voiced dental fricative phoneme /ð/ (as in this) or the voiceless dental fricative phoneme /θ/ (as in thing).Occasionally, it stands for /t/ (as in Thailand, or Thomas).In the word eighth, it is often pronounced /tθ/.In compound words, th may be a consonant sequence rather than a digraph (as in the /t.h/ of lighthouse).
27 of 30. Learn and practise the th sound! Help the wizards to make th words and sentences in this fun Stage 1 Phonics guide from BBC Bitesize.
Find out which words work together and produce more natural-sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Try it for free as part of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app. (in nouns) the action or process of.
