UrsprungFrom Old Swedish þæþan, from Old Norse þaðan.
- dated, not-comparablethence, therefrom, from there, away (from there)
“Actæon som såg Diana
naken, wändes till en hiort,
Måste efter hiortens wana” — Actaeon who saw Diana naked,
was turned into a hart (stag),
And had, like the hart’s custom,
to run away swiftly at once.
“Han hade kommit till Sibirien såsom en af liberala västerländska idéer något smittad Saulus, men återvände dädan såsom en panslavistisk, ortodoxt ödmjuk Paulus.” — He had come to Siberia as one by liberal western ideas somewhat infected Saul, but returned from there as a panslavic, orthodoxly humble Paul.
Formertädan(alternative, obsolete)