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yee
English
Alternative forms
- ye
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ji/
Pronoun
yee (personal pronoun)
- (archaic and Tyneside) you (the people being addressed); Alternative spelling of ye
- obsolete emphatic of ye
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book V
- Speak yee who best can tell, ye sons of light,
Angels, for yee behold him, and with songs
And choral symphonies, Day without Night,
Circle his Throne, rejoycing, yee in Heav'n,
On Earth joyn all yee Creatures to extoll.
- Speak yee who best can tell, ye sons of light,
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book V
Interjection
yee
- (slang) yes
Anagrams
- Eye, eye
Luganda
Adverb
yee
- yes
Antonyms
- aaa
References
The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 152.
Middle English
Pronoun
yee
- Alternative form of ye (“you”)
Postposition
yee
- with, by means of, by means of it
Yola
Particle
yee
- yes
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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thee
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English þe, from Old English þ? (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”). Cognate with German Low German di (“thee”), German dir (“thee”, dative pron.), Icelandic þér (“thee”). More at thou.
Pronunciation
- enPR: th?, IPA(key): /ði?/
- Rhymes: -i?
- Homophone: the (when stressed)
Pronoun
thee (second-person singular, objective case, nominative thou, reflexive thyself)
- (now chiefly archaic, literary) Objective and reflexive case of thou. [from 8th c.]
- (now chiefly archaic, dialect) Thou. [from 12th c.]
Derived terms
- get thee behind me
Translations
Verb
thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)
- (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
- Synonym: thou
- (intransitive) To use the word thee.
- Synonym: thou
See also
Etymology 2
From Middle English theen (“to increase, prosper, flourish”), from Old English þ?on (“to thrive, prosper, flourish, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *þinhan? (“to thrive, succeed”), from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to succeed, turn out well”). Cognate with Dutch gedijen (“to flourish, thrive, prosper, succeed”), German gedeihen (“to thrive”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (gaþeihan, “to increase, thrive”).
Alternative forms
- the (Scotland)
Pronunciation
- enPR: th?, IPA(key): /?i?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Verb
thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)
- (intransitive, Britain, obsolete) To thrive; prosper.
Derived terms
- theedom
Etymology 3
From Pitman zee, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents.
Noun
thee (plural thees)
- The letter ?(?, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms
- ith
- eth, the name of the IPA letter for this sound
Anagrams
- ethe
Acehnese
Etymology
From Proto-Chamic *th?w, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqu, from Proto-Austronesian *Caqu.
Verb
thee
- to be informed
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowing from Malay teh, from Min Nan ? (tê). The "-h-" is a faux-Greek spelling (compare Greek ???? (tsái)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te?/
- Hyphenation: thee
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
thee m (plural theeën, diminutive theetje n)
- tea
Derived terms
- kamillethee
- kruidenthee
- muntthee
- rooibosthee
- theedoos
- theeglas
- theekop
- theekrans
- theelepel
- theeleut
- theemuts
- theepauze
- theepot
- theezakje
Descendants
- Afrikaans: tee
- ? West Frisian: tee
- ? Dutch Low Saxon: thee
- ? Danish: te
- ? Faroese: te
- ? English: tea
- Gullah: tea
- Jamaican Creole: tea
- ? Abenaki: ti
- ? Chickasaw: tii'
- ? Cocopa: ?i·
- ? Cornish: té
- ? Cree:
- Canadian syllabics: ?? (tiy)
- Latin: tiy
- ? Inuktitut: ? (tii)
- ? Irish: tae
- ? Maori: t?
- ? Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ti
- ? Mikasuki: ti'g'tlo'q, ji'gitlo'q (“kettle”) (from "tea kettle")
- ? Panamint: tii
- ? Telugu: ?? (??)
- ? Unami: ti
- ? Welsh: te
- ? French: thé
- Haitian Creole: te
- Louisiana Creole French: thé
- ? Armenian: ??? (t?ey)
- ? Coeur d'Alene: liiti
- ? Corsican: tè
- ? Greek: ????? (téïon) (with neuter suffix -ion)
- ? Italian: tè
- ? Romansch: te, té, tè
- ? Norman: thée
- ? Occitan: tè
- ? Romansch: te, té, tè
- ? South Slavey: lidí
- ? Tiri: tee
- ? Walloon: té
- ? German: Tee
- ? German Low German: Tee
- Plautdietsch: Tee
- ? Estonian: tee
- ? Hunsrik: Tee
- ? Lower Sorbian: tej
- ? Romansch: te, té, tè
- ? Saterland Frisian: Tee
- ? Silesian: tyj
- ? Slovene: te (dialectal)
- ? Silesian German: Tee
- ? Vilamovian: tyy
- ? Zipser German: Tee
- ? German Low German: Tee
- ? Icelandic: te
- ? New Latin: thea
- ? Latin: herba thea (“herb tea”)
- ? Polish: herbata
- ? Belarusian: ???????? (harbáta)
- ? Kashubian: arbata, rabata, erbata, rebata
- ? Lithuanian: arbata
- ? Samogitian: erbeta
- ? Ukrainian: ???????? (herbáta), ????????? (herbátka)
- ? Polish: herbata
- ? Latin: herba thea (“herb tea”)
- ? Latvian: t?ja
- ? Norwegian: te
- ? Sranan Tongo: te
- ? Swedish: te, the, thé
- ? Finnish: tee
Anagrams
- heet, hete
Middle English
Etymology 1
Pronoun
thee
- Alternative form of þe (“thee”)
Etymology 2
Verb
thee
- Alternative form of theen
Old Irish
Adjective
thee
- Alternative spelling of thé: lenited form of tee (“hot”).
Scots
Etymology 1
From Old English þ?oh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuh?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i/
Noun
thee (plural thees)
- thigh
Etymology 2
From Middle English theen, from Old English þ?on, from Proto-Germanic *þinhan?.
Verb
thee (third-person singular present thees, present participle theein, past theet, past participle theet)
- (archaic, literary) To thrive, prosper
Etymology 3
From Middle English þe, from Old English þ? (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”).
Alternative forms
- dee
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ði/
- (Orkney, Shetland) IPA(key): /di/
Pronoun
thee (subjective case thou, reflexive thysel, possessive determiner thy)
- (archaic outside Orkney and Shetland) thee, you (2nd person singular object pronoun, informal)
- (Orkney, Shetland) thou, you (2nd person singular subject pronoun, informal)
Usage notes
- Regularly used throughout Scotland up until the middle of the 1800s; now only used as an archaism outside Shetland and Orkney.
References
- “thou, pers. pron, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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