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þi

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See also:þíandAppendix:Variations of "thi"

Middle English

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(stressed)IPA^(key): /θiː/,/ðiː/
(unstressed)IPA^(key): /ði/^[1]^[2]
(after/t/,/d/, especially early)IPA^(key): /tiː/,/ti/

Determiner

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þi (nominative pronounþou)

second-person singular possessive determiner:thy,your^[3]

Usage notes

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When followed by a word starting with a vowel orh-,þin or one of its variants is typically used.

Descendants

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English:thy
Yola:thee,th'

Middle English personal pronouns
			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
dual³	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
	3rd person	bor.	þei	þem,þeim		þeir	þeir þeires,þeiren

¹ Used preconsonantally or beforeh.
² Early 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.
⁴ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

References

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^Brink, Daniel (1992), “Variation between <þ-> and <t-> in theOrmulum”, 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,→DOI,→ISBN, pages21-35.
^Thurber, Beverly A. (15 February 2011), “Voicing of Initial Interdental Fricatives in Early Middle English Function Words”, inJournal of Germanic Linguistics, volume23, number 1,Cambridge University Press,→DOI, pages65-81.
^“thin,pron.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.