thy
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: thī, IPA(key): /ðaɪ/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology 1
From Middle English thy, thi, apocopated variants of Middle English thine, thyn, thin, from Old English þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“thou”). See thou.
Determiner
thy
- (archaic, literary) The possessive form of thou: that belongs to thee; that belongs to you (singular).
Translations
possessive determiner
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See also
Etymology 2
From Middle English thy (“because, forwhy”), shortened form of for-thy, forthy (“for that”), from Old English for þȳ [þe] (“because [that]”) from for (instrumental preposition) + þȳ (“by that”), instrumental case of þæt. More at the, that.
Conjunction
thy
- (obsolete) because.
See also
Middle English
Etymology 1
Determiner
thy
- Alternative form of þi
References
- “thin, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.
Etymology 2
Pronoun
thy
- Alternative form of þe.
References
- “the, (pron.2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.
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