English Online Dictionary. What means thy? What does thy mean?
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: thī, IPA(key): /ðaɪ/
- 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
- (archaic, dialectal, literary) Possessive form of thou: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).
- Synonym: (before vowels) thine
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- thee
- thine
- thou
- thyself
- your
Etymology 2
Conjunction
thy
- (obsolete) Only used in for thy, for-thy, which is an alternative form of forthy (“because, therefore”)
See also
- why
- forwhy
Albanian
Participle
thy
- Dialectal form of thyer
Middle English
Etymology 1
Determiner
thy
- Alternative form of þi (“thy”)
Etymology 2
Determiner
thy
- Alternative form of þe (“the”)
Etymology 3
Pronoun
thy
- Alternative form of þe (“thee”)
Etymology 4
Pronoun
thy
- Alternative form of þei (“they”)
Etymology 5
Adverb
thy
- Alternative spelling of þy (“the”)
Etymology 6
Noun
thy (plural thies)
- 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
- therefore, for that reason
Scots
Alternative forms
- dee
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
- IPA(key): /ðɑe/
- (Orkney) IPA(key): /ði/
- (Shetland) IPA(key): /di/
Determiner
thy
- (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
- “thy, poss. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.