thy

See also: THY, Thy, thŷ, þy, and þý

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Tha with y as a placeholder.

Symbol

thy

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tha.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tha terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈðaɪ̯/, [ˈðaɪ̯]

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• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Hyphenation: thy

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

1. (archaic, Early Modern, dialectal, literary) Possessive form of thou: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).

   Synonym: (before vowels) thine

Derived terms

• beggar-thy-neighbor
• thissen
• thyselves
• thysen

Translations

possessive determiner

• Arabic: ـك (ar) (-k) (-ak, -uk(a), etc. pronunciation differs according to case or level of language formality, 'ismak - "your name"")

  Egyptian Arabic: (owner is male) ـك (-ak, -k), (owner is female) ـك (-ek, -ki)

• Azerbaijani: sənin
• Belarusian: твой (tvoj)
• Bulgarian: твой (tvoj)
• Catalan: teu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 你嘅 (nei⁵ ge³)

  Mandarin: 你的 (nǐde)

• Coptic: (owner is male) ⲡⲉⲕ m (pek) ⲧⲉⲕ f (tek) ⲛⲉⲕ m pl or f pl (nek), (owner is female) ⲡⲉ m (pe) ⲧⲉ f (te) ⲛⲉ m pl or f pl (ne)
• Czech: tvůj (cs)
• Danish: din (da), dit (da), dine (da)
• Dutch: je (nl)
• Egyptian: (owner is male) (.k), (owner is female) (.ṯ)
• Esperanto: cia (eo)
• Faroese: tín
• Finnish: sinun ...si, -si (fi), sinun (fi)
• French: ton (fr) m, ta (fr) f, tes (fr) pl
• Georgian: შენი (šeni)
• German: dein (de) m or n, deine (de) f, deine (de) pl
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 m (þeins), þeina f, þein n, þeinata n, 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰 f (þeina), 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽 n (þein), 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌰 n (þeinata)
• Hebrew: שלך (he) m (shelkhá)
• Hindi: तेरा (hi) (terā), तुम्हारा (hi) (tumhārā)
• Italian: tuo (it)
• Japanese: 汝の (nanji no), 汝が (na ga)
• Korean: 네 (ko) (ne), 너의 (neoui)
• Macanese: vôs-sa
• Macedonian: твој (tvoj)
• Polish: twój (pl)
• Portuguese: teu (pt) m, tua (pt) f
• Russian: твой (ru) (tvoj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: твој

  Latin: tvoj

• Slovak: tvoj (sk)
• Slovene: tvój (sl)
• Spanish: tu (es), tuyo (es)
• Swedish: din (sv) c, ditt (sv) n, dina (sv) pl
• Tagalog: iyong, mo
• Turkish: senin (tr), seninki, seninkiler pl
• Ukrainian: твій (uk) (tvij)
• Urdu: تیرا (terā), تمھارا (tumhārā)
• Vietnamese: của mày, của em

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: tuo (it)
• Polish: twój (pl)
• Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} wan

See also

• thee
• thine
• thou
• thyself
• your

Etymology 2

Conjunction

thy

1. (obsolete) Only used in for thy, for-thy, which is an alternative form of forthy (“because, therefore”).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     For-thy it round and hollow shaped was, Like to the world itselfe, and seem'd aworld of glass.

   • 1713, Robert Sanders, transl., The Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace:

     Wallace knew well the Englishmen would flee, For thy he thrusted in the thickest to be, Hewing full fast on whomsoever he fought, Against his dint fine steel availed nought.

   • 1791, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, William TAYLOR (of Norwich.), Nathan the Wise. A dramatic poem, page 24:

     For thy it bring: us nearer to the Godhead is nonsense, Daya, if not blasphemy.

See also

• why
• forwhy

Albanian

Participle

thy

1. dialectal form of thyer

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

thy

1. alternative form of þi (“thy”)

Etymology 2

Determiner

thy

1. alternative form of þe (“the”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

thy

1. alternative form of þe (“thee”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

thy

1. alternative form of þei (“they”)

Etymology 5

Adverb

thy

1. alternative spelling of þy (“the”)

Etymology 6

Noun

thy

1. alternative spelling of þy (“thigh”)

Middle Norwegian

Alternative forms

• þui, þvi, þwi, þij, þy
• thui, thvi, thwi
• thij, thi

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse því, from Proto-Germanic *hwī (“how, with what”).

Pronoun

thy

1. dative of thet (“it, that”)

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Usage notes

• As in modern Norwegian di, the term occurs rather rarely on its own and is instead used frequently together with conjunctions, adverbs or prepositions to form other parts of speech. In the mediaeval collection Diplomatarium Norvegicum, thy seems to occur almost exclusively in conjunction with other words after around the 14th-15th century.

Declension

Middle Norwegian personal pronouns

singular	first person	second person	reflexive	third person
				masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ek	thu	—	han	hon	thet
accusative	mik	thik	sik	han	hana	thet
dative	mer	ther	ser	honom	henne	thy
genitive	min	thin	sin	hans	hennar	thes
dual	first person	second person	reflexive
nominative	vit, mit	it, thit	—
accusative	okker	ykker	sik
dative	okker	ykker	ser
genitive	okkar	ykkar	sin
plural	first person	second person	reflexive	third person
				masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ver, mer	er, ther	—	their	thær	thau
accusative	oss	ydher	sik	tha	thær	thau
dative	oss	ydher	ser	theim	theim	theim
genitive	vaar	ydhar	sin	their(r)a	their(r)a	their(r)a

Derived terms

• af thy at (“because”)
• fore thy at (“because”)
• efter thy som (“because”)

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: di; (dialectal) de, ti, te

References

• Handbok i norrøn filologi, p. 423
• “di”, in Norsk Ordbok: Ordbok over det Norske Folkemålet og det Nynorske Skriftmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1950–2016, →ISBN.

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

1. 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

1. (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.