Etymology

those

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Middle English thos
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromthos“those”
  2. English todaythose

From Middle English thos (“those”), alteration of tho pl (“the; those”), equivalent to tho (“the; those”) + -s (plural ending), partly by analogy with thes (“these”), whose final -s is original and not a plural ending. More at tho.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.