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Definitions
- 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
- 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; [...]"
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.
See also for "ye"
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