thy

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See also: Thy, THY, thŷ, þy, and þý

English

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: thī, IPA(key): /ðaɪ/
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  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Etymology 1

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

thy

  1. (archaic, dialectal, literary) Possessive form of thou: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Conjunction

thy

  1. (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

Participle

thy

  1. Dialectal form of thyer

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

thy

  1. Alternative form of þi (“thy”)

Etymology 2

Determiner

thy

  1. Alternative form of þe (“the”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

thy

  1. Alternative form of þe (“thee”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

thy

  1. Alternative form of þei (“they”)

Etymology 5

Adverb

thy

  1. Alternative spelling of þy (“the”)

Etymology 6

Noun

thy (plural thies)

  1. Alternative spelling of þy (“thigh”)

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

thy

  1. therefore, for that reason

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Determiner

thy

  1. (archaic outside Orkney and Shetland) thy, your (possessive form of thou)

Usage notes

  • Regularly used throughout Scotland up until the middle of the 1800s; now only used as an archaism outside Shetland and Orkney.

References

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