thy

See also: Thy, THY, thŷ, þy, and þý

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: thī, IPA^(key): /ðaɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪ

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

Derived terms

• beggar-thy-neighbor

 

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)
• 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

  Roman: 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)
• 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)

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 (plural thies)

1. Alternative spelling of þy (“thigh”)

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.