þin
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old English þīn.
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
þin (nominative pronoun þou)
Usage notesEdit
When followed by a word starting with a consonant other than h-, þi or one of its variants is typically used.
DescendantsEdit
- English: thine (determiner)
See alsoEdit
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | possessive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | 1st-person | I, ich, ik | me | min mi1 |
min | ||
2nd-person | þou | þe | þin þi1 |
þin | |||
3rd-person | m | he | him hine2 |
him | his | his hisen | |
f | sche, heo | hire heo |
hire | hire hires, hiren | |||
n | hit | hit him2 |
his, hit | — | |||
dual3 | 1st-person | wit | unk | unker | |||
2nd-person | ȝit | inc | inker | ||||
plural | 1st-person | we | us, ous | oure | oure oures, ouren | ||
2nd-person4 | ye | yow | your | your youres, youren | |||
3rd-person | inh. | he | hem he2 |
hem | here | here heres, heren | |
bor. | þei | þem, þeim | þeir | þeir þeires, þeiren |
1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
PronounEdit
þin (nominative þou)
DescendantsEdit
- English: thine (pronoun)
See alsoEdit
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | possessive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | 1st-person | I, ich, ik | me | min mi1 |
min | ||
2nd-person | þou | þe | þin þi1 |
þin | |||
3rd-person | m | he | him hine2 |
him | his | his hisen | |
f | sche, heo | hire heo |
hire | hire hires, hiren | |||
n | hit | hit him2 |
his, hit | — | |||
dual3 | 1st-person | wit | unk | unker | |||
2nd-person | ȝit | inc | inker | ||||
plural | 1st-person | we | us, ous | oure | oure oures, ouren | ||
2nd-person4 | ye | yow | your | your youres, youren | |||
3rd-person | inh. | he | hem he2 |
hem | here | here heres, heren | |
bor. | þei | þem, þeim | þeir | þeir þeires, þeiren |
1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Brink, Daniel (1992), “Variation between <þ-> and <t-> in the Ormulum”, in Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr and Robert L. Kyes, editors, On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; 68), De Gruyter Mouton, , →ISBN, pages 21-35.
- ^ Thurber, Beverly A. (15 February 2011), “Voicing of Initial Interdental Fricatives in Early Middle English Function Words”, in Journal of Germanic Linguistics, volume 23, issue 1, Cambridge University Press, , pages 65-81.
- ^ “thin, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *þīn, whence also Old High German dīn, Old Norse þinn.
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
þīn
- your (singular)
DeclensionEdit
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | þīn | þīn | þīn |
Accusative | þīnne | þīne | þīn |
Genitive | þīnes | þīnre | þīnes |
Dative | þīnum | þīnre | þīnum |
Instrumental | þīne | þīnre | þīne |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | þīne | þīna, þīne | þīn |
Accusative | þīne | þīna, þīne | þīn |
Genitive | þīnra | þīnra | þīnra |
Dative | þīnum | þīnum | þīnum |
Instrumental | þīnum | þīnum | þīnum |
DescendantsEdit
- Middle English: þin, þine, þyn, þyne, thin, thine, thyn, thyne, þinne, thyen, theyn, tin, tine, yin
- English: thine (determiner)
PronounEdit
þīn