þy
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Middle English
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Determiner
[edit]þy
- Alternative form of þi (“thy”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Determiner
[edit]þy
- (Northern) Alternative form of þe (“the”)
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]þy
- Alternative form of þe (“thee”)
Etymology 4
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]þy
- Alternative form of þei (“they”)
Etymology 5
[edit]Adverb
[edit]þy
- Alternative form of þe (“the”)
Etymology 6
[edit]Noun
[edit]þy (plural þyes)
- Alternative form of þigh (“thigh”)
Old English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From an earlier *þiu, apparently formed from the demonstrative base *þi- with the nominal instrumental ending -ō. Cognate with Old Frisian þiu, Old Saxon þiu, Old High German diu, Old Norse því, Gothic 𐌸𐌴 (þē).
Pronunciation
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[edit]þȳ
Determiner
[edit]þȳ
Pronoun
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Adverb
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- therefore, for this reason, on that account; because, since; then
- And þȳ is nū geworden wīde and sīde tō ful yfelan gewunan ― and therefore it has now become an evil custom far and wide. (Sermo Lupi)
- (used with comparative) the
- late 9th c., King Alfred, Gregory's Pastoral (Cotton MSS.) :
- […] ; for ðære wilnunga hi hit forleton, & woldon ðæt her þy mara wisdom on londe wære ðy we ma geðioda cuðon.
- […] , for that desire, they abandoned it, and wished that, here, the more wisdom there would be in the land the more languages we knew.
- […] ; for ðære wilnunga hi hit forleton, & woldon ðæt her þy mara wisdom on londe wære ðy we ma geðioda cuðon.
- hȳ beoð þȳ gesundran ond þȳ sīgefæstran ― they will be the safer and the more confident of victory. (Anglo-Saxon Riddles)
Conjunction
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Descendants
[edit]Old Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse því, possibly from the instrumental interrogative Proto-Germanic *hwī (“how, with what”), with the initial h- replaced by the þ- from the forms of *sa.
Adverb
[edit]þy
Descendants
[edit]- Swedish: ty
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