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See also:THY,Thy,thŷ,þy,andþý

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping ofEnglishTha withy as a placeholder.

Symbol

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thy

  1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forTha.

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishþi, apocopated variant ofþin, fromOld Englishþīn, fromProto-West Germanic*þīn, fromProto-Germanic*þīnaz, fromProto-Indo-European*téynos(“thy; thine”), fromProto-Indo-European*túh₂(“thou”). Seethou.

Determiner

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thy

  1. (archaic, Early Modern, dialectal, literary)Possessive form ofthou: that which belongs tothee; which belongs to you(singular).
    Synonym:(before vowels)thine
Derived terms
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Translations
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possessive determiner
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Etymology 2

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Conjunction

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thy

  1. (obsolete)Only used infor thy,for-thy,which is analternative form offorthy(“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, Forthy 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, page24:
      Forthy it bring: us nearer to the Godhead is nonsense, Daya, if not blasphemy.

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Albanian

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Participle

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thy

  1. dialectal form ofthyer

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Determiner

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thy

  1. alternative form ofþi(“thy”)

Etymology 2

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Determiner

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thy

  1. alternative form ofþe(“the”)

Etymology 3

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Pronoun

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thy

  1. alternative form ofþe(“thee”)

Etymology 4

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Pronoun

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thy

  1. alternative form ofþei(“they”)

Etymology 5

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Adverb

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thy

  1. alternative spelling ofþy(“the”)

Etymology 6

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Noun

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thy

  1. alternative spelling ofþy(“thigh”)

Old Swedish

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Etymology

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FromOld Norseþví, possibly from the instrumental interrogativeProto-Germanic*hwī(“how, with what”), with the initial h- replaced by the þ- from the forms of*sa.

Adverb

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thy

  1. therefore,forthatreason

Scots

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Fromþi, apocopated variant ofMiddle Englishþin, fromOld Englishþīn, fromProto-West Germanic*þīn, fromProto-Germanic*þīnaz, fromProto-Indo-European*téynos(“thy; thine”).

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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thy

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

Usage notes

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

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