ye

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ye" and үе

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ye, ȝe, from Old English ġē (“ye”), the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *jīz, variant of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *jūz (“ye”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *yūs (“ye”), *yū́, plural of *túh₂. Cognate with Scots ye (“ye”), Dutch gij, jij, je (“ye”), Low German ji, jie (“ye”), German ihr (“ye”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Danish and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish I (“ye”), Icelandic ér (“ye”). See also you.

Alternative forms

• ȝe (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• & (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /jiː/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

ye (personal pronoun)

1. (archaic outside Northern England, Cornwall, Ireland) You (the people being addressed).

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.

References

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

Verb

ye (present participle yeyn)

1. (obsolete) Address a single person by the use of the pronoun ye instead of thou.
   • 1483, Catholicon Anglicum: An English–Latin Wordbook (Monson 168), page 426

     To ȝe, vosare jn plurali numero vos vestrum vel tibi [perh. read vobis].

   • 1511, Promptorium Parvulorum (de Worde), sig. M.iiiᵛ/2

     Yeyn or sey ye with worshyp, viso.

Synonyms

• (address by the pronoun ye): yeet (obsolete)

Antonyms

• (address by the pronoun ye): thowt (obsolete)

Etymology 2

From Middle English þe. The letter y is a variant of þ (“thorn”), a letter which corresponds to modern th, but letter þ did not exist in the first press typographies, so was replaced using either "th" or "y", which resembled it some typefaces. Etymological y was for a time distinguished by a dot, ẏ, but the letters were conflated when that was dropped.

Pronunciation

• Traditionally pronounced the same as the, but now often pronounced with the ordinary sound of <y>: (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /jiː/

Article

ye

1. (archaic, definite) the
   • 1647, The old deluder, Satan, Act. (cited in American Public School Law, K. Alexander, M. Alexander, 1995)

     It being one cheife proiect of y^e ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men from the knowledge of v Scriptures, as in form^r times by keeping y^m in an unknowne tongue, so in these latt^r times by perswading from y^e use of tongues, y^t so at least y^e true sence & meaning of y^e originall might be clouded by false glosses of saint seeming deceivers, y^t learning may not be buried in y^e church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting o^r endeavo^rs,—

   • Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe.

Derived terms

• ye olde

Statistics

• Template:rank

Anagrams

• ey

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Asturian

Verb

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) third-person singular present indicative of ser

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Catawba

Noun

ye

1. Man (adult male human), men.
2. Person, people.
3. Native American Indian(s).

Usage notes

• Catawba nouns do not inflect for number.
• Many of Catawba's names for tribes incorporate this word, e.g. yę iswa (“the Catawba”, literally “people of the river”), yę manterą (“the Cherokee”, literally “people born in/on the land”).
• The vowel of this word is generally nasalized; this is reflected in different ways or not at all in different transcriptions: ye, yę, yeⁿ. Sometimes, an initial i, also nasalized, is found: iⁿyeⁿ / įyę.

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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Haitian Creole

Etymology

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

ye

1. Form of se used at the end of a phrase, after the predicate and the subject, in that order; to be.

   Kimoun ou ye? (“Who are you?”, literally “Who you are?”)

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Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto je.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /je/, /jɛ/

Preposition

ye

1. to, at, by (preposition used when no other fits the meaning)

   Lu kaptis la kavalo per lazo ye la kolo.

   He/she captured the horse by a lasso to the neck.

   Ye la angulo di la strado.

   At the corner of the street.

   Ilu prenis elu ye la tayo.

   He took her by the waist.

Proper noun

ye (plural ye-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter Y/y.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, be, ce, che, de, e, fe, ge, he, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, pe, que, re, se, she, te, u, ve, we, xe, ye, ze ^{(Category: io:Latin letter names)}

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Mandarin

Romanization

ye

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of yē.
2. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of yé.
3. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of yě.
4. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of yè.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

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Middle English

Noun

ye (plural)

1. eyes
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 9–10:

     And smale foweles maken melodye, / That slepen al the nyght with open ye.

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Novial

Etymology

From Esperanto je.

Preposition

1. wild card preposition

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Scots

Alternative forms

• you

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

ye (second person, singular or plural; possessive determiner yer, possessive pronoun yers, singular reflexive yersel, plural reflexive yersel)

1. you

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Spanish

Noun

ye f (plural yes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.

Synonyms

• i griega

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Turkish

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Noun

ye

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Y/y.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

Etymology 2

Persian یه (ye).

Noun

ye

1. Last letter of the Arabic alphabet: ي

• • Previous: و

Verb

ye

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) second-person singular imperative of yemek

Antonyms

• yeme

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Uzbek

Verb

ye

1. imperative of yemoq

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Volapük

Conjunction

ye

1. however

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Zulu

Pronoun

-ye

1. Combining stem of yena.

See also

Class 1 concords^[edit]

Full noun prefix:	umu-2, um-, u-3
Basic noun prefix:	mu-2, m-, -3
Subject concord:	u-, -ka-
Object concord:	-mu-2, -m-
Possessive concord:	wa-
Adjective concord:	omu-1, om-
Relative concord:	o-
Pronoun:	yena, -ye, -khe1
1 With possessive concords. 2 With single-syllable stems. 3 With class 1a nouns.
See Appendix:Zulu concords for a full table.