different between thyself vs thy

English

Alternative forms

• Thyself (honorific)

Etymology

From Middle English thy-selfe, thiself, thi-zelf, from Old English þ?nes silfes, þ?nre sylfre, etc., equivalent to thy +? -self. Compare Middle English thou-self, Old English þ? sylfum, þ? selfum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: th?-s?lf', IPA^(key): /ða??s?lf/
• Hyphenation: thy?self

Pronoun

thyself

1. (archaic, literary, dialectal) yourself (as the object of a verb or preposition or as an intensifier); reflexive case of thou

Synonyms

• theeself

See also

Anagrams

• Flythes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• thiself

Etymology

from Old English þ?nes silfes, þ?nre sylfre, etc., equivalent to thy +? self.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?s?lf/

Pronoun

thyself

1. yourself

Descendants

• English: thyself
• Yola: theezil

References

• “th?-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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.