thee

English Online Dictionary. What means thee‎? What does thee mean?

From Middle English þe, from Old English þē (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian die (“thee”), West Frisian dy (“thee”), German Low German di (“thee”), German dir (“thee”, dative pron.), Icelandic þér (“thee”). More at thou.

• enPR: thē, IPA^(key): /ðiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: the (when stressed)

thee (second-person singular, objective case, nominative thou, reflexive thyself)

1. (now chiefly archaic, literary) Objective and reflexive case of thou. [from 8th c.]
2. (now chiefly archaic, dialect) Thou. [from 12th c.]

• Thee

thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)

1. (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.

   Synonym: thou
2. (intransitive) To use the word thee.

   Synonym: thou

From Middle English theen (“to increase, prosper, flourish”), from Old English þēon (“to thrive, prosper, flourish, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *þinhaną (“to thrive, succeed”), from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to succeed, turn out well”). Cognate with Dutch gedijen (“to flourish, thrive, prosper, succeed”), German gedeihen (“to thrive”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gaþeihan, “to increase, thrive”).

• the (Scotland)

• enPR: thē, IPA^(key): /θiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theeing, simple past and past participle theed)

1. (intransitive, UK, obsolete) To thrive; prosper.

• theedom

From Pitman zee, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents.

thee (plural thees)

1. The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.

• ith
• eth, the name of the IPA letter for this sound

Respelling of the popularized by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.

thee

1. (very rare, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of the

• ethe

• (obsolete) tee

From Hokkien 茶 (tê). The "-h-" is a faux-Greek spelling (compare Greek τσάι (tsái)); the more basal spelling tee was previously common, especially in the early modern period, but is now obsolete.

• IPA^(key): /teː/
• Hyphenation: thee
• Rhymes: -eː

thee m (plural theeën, diminutive theetje n)

1. tea

• Afrikaans: tee
• Berbice Creole Dutch: tei
• Negerhollands: thee, tee
• → Caribbean Javanese: teh
• → Dutch Low Saxon: thee
• → Danish: te, the
  • → Faroese: te
• → English: tea, tay
  • Gullah: tea
  • Jamaican Creole: tea
  • → Abenaki: ti
  • → Chickasaw: tii'
  • → Cocopa: ṭi·
  • → Cornish: té
  • → Cree:

    Canadian syllabics script: ᑎᕀ (tiy)

    Latin script: tiy

  • → Inuktitut: ᑏ (tii)
  • → Irish: tae
  • → Maori: tī
  • → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ti
  • → Mikasuki: ti'g'tlo'q, ji'gitlo'q (“kettle”) (from "tea kettle")
  • → Panamint: tii
  • → Scottish Gaelic: tì, teatha
  • → Tamil: டீ (ṭī)
  • → Telugu: టీ (ṭī)
  • → Unami: ti
  • → Welsh: te
• → French: thé
  • Haitian Creole: te
  • Louisiana Creole: thé
  • → Armenian: թեյ (tʻey)
  • → Coeur d'Alene: liiti
  • → Corsican: tè
  • → Greek: τέϊον (téïon) (with neuter suffix -ion)
  • → Italian: tè, té
    • → Romansch: te, té, tè
  • → Norman: thée
  • → Occitan: tè
  • → Romansch: te, té, tè
  • → South Slavey: lidí
  • → Tiri: tee
  • → Walloon: té
• → Kari'na: te
• → German: Tee
  • → German Low German: Tee
    • Plautdietsch: Tee
  • → Estonian: tee
  • → Hunsrik: Tee
  • → Lower Sorbian: tej
  • → Romansch: te, té, tè
  • → Saterland Frisian: Tee
  • → Silesian: tyj
    • → Slovene: (dialectal) te
  • → Silesian East Central German: Tee
  • → Vilamovian: tyy
  • → Zipser German: Tee
• → Icelandic: te
• → New Latin: thea
  • ⇒ Latin: herba thea (“herb tea”)
    • → Polish: herbata
      • → Belarusian: гарба́та (harbáta)
      • → Kashubian: arbata, rabata, erbata, rebata
      • → Lithuanian: arbata
      • → Samogitian: erbeta
      • → Ukrainian: герба́та (herbáta)
• → Latvian: tēja
• → Norwegian: te
• → Sranan Tongo: te
  • → Aukan: te
  • → Saramaccan: té
• → Swedish: te, the, thé
  • → Finnish: tee
• → West Frisian: tee

• heet, hete

From Thai ถ่าน (tàan) ("charcoal") or Lao ຖ່ານ (thān) ("charcoal"), ultimately from Middle Chinese 炭 (tʰɑn^H) ("charcoal").

• IPA^(key): /tʰẽ˧/

thee

1. charcoal, coal

thee

1. Alternative form of þe (“thee”)

thee

1. Alternative form of theen

thee

1. Alternative spelling of thé: lenited form of tee (“hot”).

From Old English þēoh, from Proto-Germanic *þeuhą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-.

• IPA^(key): /θi/

thee (plural thees)

1. thigh

From Middle English theen, from Old English þēon, from Proto-Germanic *þinhaną.

thee (third-person singular simple present thees, present participle theein, simple past theet, past participle theet)

1. (archaic, literary) To thrive, prosper

From Middle English þe, from Old English þē (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”).

• dee

• IPA^(key): /ði/
• (Orkney, Shetland) IPA^(key): /di/

thee (subjective case thou, reflexive thysel, possessive determiner thy)

1. (archaic outside Orkney and Shetland) thee, you (2nd person singular object pronoun, informal)
2. (Orkney, Shetland) thou, you (2nd person singular subject pronoun, informal)

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

• “thou, pers. pron, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

From Thai ถ่าน (tàan) ("charcoal") or Lao ຖ່ານ (thān) ("charcoal"), ultimately from Middle Chinese 炭 (tʰɑn^H) ("charcoal").

• IPA^(key): /tʰẽ˧/

thee

1. charcoal, coal

• IPA^(key): /ðiː/

From Middle English þe, from Old English þē.

thee

1. thee

From Middle English þi, apocopated variant of þin, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn.

• th'

thee

1. thy, your

• o'thie

thee

1. thou

• yarthe