Ye
article, intj, name, noun, pron, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages.
- 1 You (the people being addressed). Cornwall, Ireland, Newfoundland, personal, pronoun
"My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue."
- 2 You (the singular person being addressed). archaic, personal, pronoun
"Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; [...]"
- 1 The. archaic, definite
"Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe"
- 1 Yes, yeah. slang
- 1 A surname from Chinese.
- 2 Kanye West, American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer. slang
"“‘Crazy’ is a word that’s not gonna be used loosely in the future,” Ye said."
- 3 Initialism of Young Earth, a form of creationism which proposes that the Earth is no more than a few thousand years old. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Antonyms
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More examples"And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men."
Etymology
From Middle English ye, ȝe, from Old English ġē (“ye”), the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, a North-West variant of Proto-Germanic *jūz (“ye”), from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs (“ye”), plural of *túh₂. Cognate with Scots ye (“ye”), Saterland Frisian jie, Dutch gij, ge, jij, je (“ye”), Low German ji, jie (“ye”), German ihr (“ye”), Danish and Swedish I (“ye”), Icelandic ér (“ye”), Latvian jūs (“ye”), Sanskrit यूयम् (yūyám, “ye”). See also you.
From Middle English þe. Early press typographies in late 15th century lacked the letter þ (“thorn”), for which the letter y was substituted due to their resemblance in blackletter hand (etymological y was for a while distinguished by a dot, ẏ (14th c.–15th c.)). Short form yͤ continued long after the digraph th had replaced þ elsewhere. "Ye" for "þe" continued in manuscripts through the 18th century. The practice was revived in the United Kingdom in the 19th century as a deliberate antiquarianism in shop names, thus the Ye Olde ... Shoppe construction.
Shortened from yes or yeah.
From Russian е (je).
Romanization of the Chinese surname 葉 /叶 (Yè).
Clipping of Kanye.
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