þou

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old English þū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

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  • (stressed) IPA(key): /θuː/, /ðuː/
  • (unstressed) IPA(key): /ðu/[1][2]
  • (after /t/, /d/, especially early) IPA(key): /tuː/, /tu/

Pronoun

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þou (accusative þe, genitive þin, possessive determiner þi, þin)

  1. thou (second-person singular pronoun); you[3]

Derived terms

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Descendants

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Brink, Daniel (1992) “Variation between <þ-> and <t-> in the Ormulum”, 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, pages 21-35.
  2. ^ Thurber, Beverly A. (2011 February 15) “Voicing of Initial Interdental Fricatives in Early Middle English Function Words”, in Journal of Germanic Linguistics, volume 23, number 1, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, pages 65-81.
  3. ^ thou, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.