ye

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.2 Pronoun 1.1.2.1 Usage notes 1.1.2.2 Derived terms 1.1.2.3 References 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Pronunciation 1.2.2 Article 1.2.2.1 Derived terms 2 Catawba 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Usage notes 2.1.2 References 3 Ido 3.1 Preposition 4 Mandarin 4.1 Pinyin syllable 4.1.1 Usage notes 5 Middle English 5.1 Noun 6 Scots 6.1 Pronoun 7 Spanish 7.1 Noun 7.1.1 Synonyms

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English ġē, the nominative case of the second person plural personal pronoun. See also you.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) & (US) IPA: /jiː/, SAMPA: /ji:/
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  Rhymes: -iː

[edit] Pronoun

ye personal pronoun

1. (Northumbrian, Cornish, archaic) you (the people being addressed).

[edit] Usage notes

Ye was originally used only for the nominative case (as the subject), and only for the second person plural. Later, ye was used as a subject or an object, either singular or plural, which is the way that you is used today.

[edit] Derived terms

• d'ye
• hear ye
• ye gods

[edit] References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English þe. The letter y is a variant of þ (“‘thorn’”), a letter which corresponds to modern th. Etymological y was for a time distinguished by a dot, ẏ, but the letters conflated when that was dropped. Despite the occasional modern use of y in the word, it is still read as the.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (stressed)

  enPR: thē, IPA: /ðiː/, SAMPA: /Di:/

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• (unstressed)
• enPR: thə, IPA: /ðə/, SAMPA: /D@/

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[edit] Article

ye

1. (archaic, definite) the

   Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe.

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• ye olde

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[edit] Catawba

[edit] Noun

ye

1. Man (adult male human), person.
2. Native American Indian.

[edit] Usage notes

The vowel sounds may permutate, and transcription methods differ, such that the word can be represented in any of the following ways: ye`, ye', ye´ (reflecting differing transcriptions); yé, yí, or yę (reflecting vowel permutation); yä´n, iⁿyeⁿ, or įyę (reflecting vowel permutation and differing transcription).

[edit] References

• 1858: Oscar M. Lieber, Vocabulary of the Catawba Language.
• 1900: Albert S. Gatschet, Grammatic Sketch of the Catawba Language (published in the American Anthropologist).
• 1942: Frank G. Speck and C. E. Shaeffer, Catawba Kinship and Social Organization.
• 1945: Frank T. Siebert, Jr., Linguistic Classification of Catawba (published in the International Journal of American Linguistics).

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[edit] Ido

[edit] Preposition

ye

1. at

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pinyin syllable

ye

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, yē, yé, yě, or yè.

[edit] Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Middle English

[edit] Noun

ye (plural)

1. eyes

And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye - General Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll. 9-10

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Pronoun

ye

1. you

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Noun

ye f. (plural yes)

1. Name of the letter y.

[edit] Synonyms

• i griega