þy
Middle English edit
Alternative forms 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 edit
Alternative forms 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 edit
Article edit
þȳ
Determiner edit
þȳ
Pronoun edit
þȳ
Adverb edit
þȳ
- 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)
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þȳ
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.
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þy
Descendants edit
- Swedish: ty