ty

Translingual

Symbol

ty

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tahitian.

English

Interjection

ty

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of TY.

Anagrams

• YT, yt

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

• Audio

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Noun

ty (plural tye)

1. (poetic, literary) tide

   Synonym: gety

Derived terms

• tyhawe

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tuu̯an, from earlier *tuu̯ān, from earlier *tuu̯ām, from Proto-Indo-European *tuu̯ēm (*twé, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”)). Compare Latin te.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty/

Pronoun

ty

1. (personal) accusative of ti, you (singular)

Related terms

• ti
• teje
• të

References

Cornish

Alternative forms

• te (Standard Cornish)

Pronoun

ty

1. you (informal second person singular pronoun)
2. thou
3. thee

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech ty, from Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

• audio

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Pronoun

ty

1. (personal) you, thou (second person singular)

   Kdybych byl tebou, udělal bych to samé. ― If I were you, I would do the same.

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Pronoun

ty

1. inflection of ten:
   1. animate masculine accusative plural
   2. inanimate masculine nominative/accusative plural
   3. feminine nominative/accusative plural

Further reading

• ty in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• ty in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• ty in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þýða (“to make friends”), Proto-Germanic *þiudijaną, cognate with Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þiuþjan, “to bless”). It may originally be the same verb as *þiudijaną (“to interpret”), which is the source of Old Norse þýða (whence Danish tyde) and German deuten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

ty (imperative ty, present tyr or tyer, past tense tyede, past participle tyet)

1. to turn to, resort to

Eastern Katu

Adjective

ty

1. ancient

Derived terms

• ty đanh

Guaraní

Noun

ty

1. urine

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key):
• (letter name): IPA^(key):

Letter

ty (lower case, upper case Ty)

1. The thirty-third letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called tyé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

See also

• (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, Z z, Zs zs. Only in the extended alphabet: Q q W w X x Y y. Commonly used: ch. Also defined: à ë. In surnames (selection): ä aa cz ds eé eö ew oe oó th ts ÿ.

Further reading

• ty in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Pronoun

ty sg

1. you (singular, informal)

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

ty

1. Alternative form of teye (“chest, enclosure”)

Etymology 2

Determiner

ty

1. (chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of þi (“thy”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þýða.

Verb

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tytt/tydd, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)

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Etymology 2

From Old Norse týja.

Verb

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tytt/tydd, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)

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Etymology 3

From Old Norse tygi (“tool”).

Noun

ty n (definite singular tyet, indefinite plural ty, definite plural tya or tyi)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of tøy

References

Anagrams

• yt

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈtɨ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈti/

Pronoun

ty (second person)

1. (personal) second person singular; you

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: ty

References

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “ty”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ty. First attested in the 13th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /tɨ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /tɨ/

Pronoun

ty

1. singular non-formal second person pronoun thou, you

Declension

Descendants

• Masurian: ti
• Polish: ty
• Silesian: ty

References

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “ty”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tɨ (“liquid, urine”), from Proto-Tupian *tˀɨ (“liquid, urine”). Doublet of y.

Cognate with Sateré-Mawé hɨ (“river”), Guaraní ty (“urine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Hyphenation: ty

Noun

ty (possessable)

1. urine

Noun

ty

1. absolute of y
2. R2 of y

Adjective

ty

1. R2 of y

References

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ty”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 485, column 1

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɨ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈtɨ/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Syllabification: ty

Pronoun

ty

1. you (second person singular pronoun)

Usage notes

• Ty is the T-form; it is used to address friends, family, children, teenagers, and often peers. The V-forms are pan m and pani f.

Declension

See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ty is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 2 times in essays, 250 times in fiction, and 1034 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1292 times, making it the 31st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Further reading

• ty in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ty in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “TY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2019 September 4
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 181

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Syllabification: ty

Pronoun

ty

1. you singular second person pronoun

Declension

Further reading

• ty in silling.org

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak ty, from Proto-Slavic *ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Pronoun

ty

1. you (personal, singular)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• “ty”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish þy, from Old Norse því.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyː/

• Audio

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Conjunction

ty

1. (archaic, poetic, biblical) for (because)

   Synonyms: därför att, eftersom, emedan, för

   Ty riket är ditt ― For the kingdom is yours

Usage notes

ty as well as för always introduces a main clause, while the other given synonyms all introduces secondary clauses. Compare:

• Hon gick inte och lade sig, ty/för hon var inte trött.
• Hon gick inte och lade sig, därför att/eftersom/emedan hon inte var trött.

Verb

ty (present tyr, preterite tydde, supine tytt, imperative ty)

1. to cling to, to turn to for protection or comfort.

   När barn blir rädda tyr de sig oftast till sina föräldrar

   When children get scared, they usually turn to their parents for comfort.

Conjugation

Further reading

• ty in Svensk ordbok.

Tapayuna

Etymology

From Proto-Northern Jê *ˀcy (“seed”) < Proto-Cerrado *cym (“seed”) < Proto-Jê *cym (“seed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ɨ/

Noun

ty

1. seed

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronoun

ty

1. you, thou

Declension

Xhosa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲ/

Letter

ty (upper case Ty)

1. A digraph in Xhosa orthography.

Yola

Etymology

Perhaps cognate with English tea (“a cup or glass of any of these drinks”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiː/

Noun

ty

1. drink
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Ty o' letch.

     A drink of small beer.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 73