þame

See also: thame

Middle English

Alternative forms

• thame

Pronoun

þame

1. Alternative form of þem (“them”)
   • 1430–1440, “II. Playsterers. The Creation, to the Fifth Day.”, in Lucy Toulmin Smith, editor, York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York on the Day of Corpus Christi in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries: […], Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, published 1885, →OCLC, page 9, lines 17–20:

     Þe water I will set / to flowe bothe fare and nere, / And þhan þe firmament, / in mydis to set þame sere.

     The water I will set / to flow both far and near, / And then the firmament, / in their midst to set them sere [separately].