Ye
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ye¹
- /jiː/ UK, US
- [jɪi] UK, US
- [ji(ː)] UK, US
- /(j)iː/
- /jɪ/ unstressed
- /jə/ unstressed
Rhymes with -iː
Where it comes from
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.
pronoun yee
- You (the people being addressed). 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.
- You (the singular person being addressed). 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; [...]
Similar: y'all
ye²
- /jiː/
Where it comes from
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.
article yͤ · yee
- The. Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe
ye³
- /jə/
- [jɐ]
- [jɪ]
- [jɛ]
- [ji]
Where it comes from
Shortened from yes or yeah.
interjection yee
- Yes, yeah.
ye⁴
Where it comes from
From Russian е (je).
noun yes · yee
- The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages.
Ye⁵
Where it comes from
Romanization of the Chinese surname 葉 /叶 (Yè).
proper noun Yes
- A surname from Chinese.
Ye⁶
- /jeɪ/
Sounds like yay, yea · Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
Clipping of Kanye.
proper noun
- Kanye West, American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer. “‘Crazy’ is a word that’s not gonna be used loosely in the future,” Ye said.
YE⁷
proper noun
- Initialism of Young Earth, a form of creationism which proposes that the Earth is no more than a few thousand years old.Young Earth
