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thither

adv.
US //ˈðɪˌθɝ// UK //ðˈɪðɐ// thith·er Archaic Literary
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From Middle English thider, from Old English þider, an alteration (probably by analogy with hider (“hither”)) of earlier þæder (“to there”), from Proto-Germanic *þadrê.

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