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What do Old Swedish "mz", "thz" mean?
I didn't find them in a dictionary.

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"ösa (-ir, -te. ösde MD 61 ), v. [Isl. asua] ösa. eg. och bildl. han fan först watn ij enom hwlum steen . . . ij sin hiälm monde thz ösa Al 4907 . hon . . . löpter ater til brunnin oc öser watn wllwallomen MB 1: 204 . al diwr vm kring fölghdo hanom. hwilkom han öste vatn af kälo til dryk KL 195 . j scullin ösa gudz nadha vatn . . . aff helarens nadha klädhom MP 1: 30 . paschasius . . . lät . . . ösa a hona wällande thiära ok oleum Bil 557 . öste julianus (sit blodh mz handom oc kastadhe höct) vp gen himnom ib 602 . hon . . . kom .. . til enna dywa källo, oc saa nidh i häne, enkte haffwande thz hon kwnne ösa mz Lg 220 . tha ösde thu af guddoms kello mz alle siäl MD 61 . - ösa, ösa ut, genom ösning tömma. öse thän thär wakin är (sentine latices excancles qui vigilzes) GO 891 . at hwar i sin stadh öse gruuona PfN 135 . huars snille ängin forma at gripa ey hällir än ösa (hauire) hauit Bir 2: 216 . ib 1: 171 . - ösa fram, framkast, uttala. ath menniskian . . . öser tolka mistankar fram Gers Frest 33 ."

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    As for "mz", it could be an abbreviation for mædh, that makes sense. But I can't make sense of "thz". I'm not aware of such a word as thædh in Old Swedish. Mar 15, 2021 at 14:34
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    @OmarL Thz was fairly common in Mediaeval Scandinavia as an abbreviation for whatever the local form of ‘that’ was (þæt, þadh, thet, etc.). Mar 15, 2021 at 16:29

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As for "mz", it's be an abbreviation for mædh, that makes sense.

thz is in all probability an abbreviation for the word means "that" in Old Swedish. According to Wiktionary, that's þætdhet.

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It is scribal abbreviation of the '-(e)t' lemme: -(e)t = -z. For more you can read this article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tironian_notes

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