different between err vs thy

English

Etymology

From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin err? (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ers- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”). Cognate with Old English eorre, ierre (“anger, wrath, ire”), Old English iersian (“to be angry with, rage, irritate, provoke”), Old English ierre (“wandering, gone astray, confused”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??(?)/, (rare) /??(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??/, /?/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -??(?)

Verb

err (third-person singular simple present errs, present participle erring, simple past and past participle erred)

1. (intransitive) To make a mistake.

   • Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.

2. (intransitive) To sin.
3. (archaic) to stray.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:make a mistake

Derived terms

Translations

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *ausra (“twilight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ews- (“dawn”) (compare English Easter, Latin aur?ra, Lithuanian aušrà).

Noun

err m

1. dark, darkness

Synonyms

• terr

Derived terms

• irë

Estonian

Noun

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Faroese

Noun

err n (genitive singular ers, plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bókstavur; a / fyrra a, á, be, de, edd, e, eff, ge, há, i / fyrra i, í / fyrra í, jodd, ká, ell, emm, enn, o, ó, pe, err, ess, te, u, ú, ve, seinna i, seinna í, seinna a, ø

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??r?]
• Hyphenation: err
• Rhymes: -?r?

Noun

err

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) bet?; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ?, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ?, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

Further reading

• r in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?/

  Rhymes: -?r?

Noun

err n (genitive singular errs, nominative plural err)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Declension

Võro

Noun

err (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: th?, IPA^(key): /ða?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English þi, apocopated variant of þin, from Old English þ?n, from Proto-West Germanic *þ?n, from Proto-Germanic *þ?naz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh? (“thou”). See thou.

Determiner

thy

1. (archaic, dialectal, literary) Possessive form of thou: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).

Translations

See also

• thee
• thine
• thou
• thyself
• your

Etymology 2

Conjunction

thy

1. (obsolete) Only used in for thy, for-thy, which is an alternative form of forthy (“because, therefore”)

See also

• why
• forwhy

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

thy

1. Alternative form of þi (“thy”)

Etymology 2

Determiner

thy

1. Alternative form of þe (“the”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

thy

1. Alternative form of þe (“thee”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

thy

1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Etymology 5

Adverb

thy

1. Alternative spelling of þy (“the”)

Etymology 6

Noun

thy (plural thies)

1. Alternative spelling of þy (“thigh”)

Scots

Alternative forms

• dee

Etymology

From þi, apocopated variant of Middle English þin, from Old English þ?n, from Proto-West Germanic *þ?n, from Proto-Germanic *þ?naz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ð?e/
• (Orkney) IPA^(key): /ði/
• (Shetland) IPA^(key): /di/

Determiner

thy

1. (archaic outside Orkney and Shetland) thy, your (possessive form of thou)

Usage notes

• Regularly used throughout Scotland up until the middle of the 1800s; now only used as an archaism outside Shetland and Orkney.

References

• “thy, poss. pron.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.