thy
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English þi, apocopated variant of þin, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“thou”). See thou.
Determiner edit
thy
- (archaic, dialectal, literary) Possessive form of thou: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
possessive determiner
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Etymology 2 edit
Conjunction edit
thy
- (obsolete) Only used in for thy, for-thy, which is an alternative form of forthy (“because, therefore”)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
- For-thy it round and hollow shaped was, Like to the world itselfe, and seem'd aworld of glass.
- 1713, Robert Sanders, transl., The Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace:
- Wallace knew well the Englishmen would flee, For thy he thrusted in the thickest to be, Hewing full fast on whomsoever he fought, Against his dint fine steel availed nought.
- 1791, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, William TAYLOR (of Norwich.), Nathan the Wise. A dramatic poem, page 24:
- For thy it bring: us nearer to the Godhead is nonsense, Daya, if not blasphemy.
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Albanian edit
Participle edit
thy
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Determiner edit
thy
- Alternative form of þi (“thy”)
Etymology 2 edit
Determiner edit
thy
- Alternative form of þe (“the”)
Etymology 3 edit
Pronoun edit
thy
- Alternative form of þe (“thee”)
Etymology 4 edit
Pronoun edit
thy
- Alternative form of þei (“they”)
Etymology 5 edit
Adverb edit
thy
- Alternative spelling of þy (“the”)
Etymology 6 edit
Noun edit
thy (plural thies)
- Alternative spelling of þy (“thigh”)
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
thy
Scots edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From þi, apocopated variant of Middle English þin, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”).
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
thy
Usage notes edit
- Regularly used throughout Scotland up until the middle of the 1800s; now only used as an archaism outside Shetland and Orkney.
References edit
- “thy, poss. pron.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.