thnn.

n.  an incoherent word (presumably “thank”) spoken through a parched throat, just upon waking.

<He was startled, had let his head fall, sleepily, and he snapped awake, stood, saw the young man holding the door for him, and he tried to say something, his mouth dry and thick.  “Thnn uuu,” he said, and cleared his throat, stepped through the door.  —Jeffrey M. Shaara, Gods and Generals.>

thrkkklll.

n.  the crackle of a roiling “timestorm” as it changes the present and removes from existence all that one knows, bit by bit, as in the comic book X-Men Adventures #8 by John Herbert.

thrp.

n.  the sound of one’s boot tripping over the ledge of a roof, as in the graphic novel ShadowFall by Kaichi Satake.

Thrrl.

n.  a given name for males.

<Hrrl my ancestor was not red-bearded. This Thrrl can be neither his ghost nor his kin.  He takes a brave name wrongly.  —Stan McDaniel, The Letterseeker.>

Thrrp.

n.  a god, Charioteer of the Sun.

<“And rightly so,” said the high priest of Thrrp, the Charioteer of the Sun.  —Terry Pratchett, Pyramids.>

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