ye

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
4
Letters
2
Pronunciation
/jiː/ (UK)
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/jiː/ (UK) · [jɪi] (UK) · [ji(ː)] (UK) · /(j)iː/ · /jɪ/ · /jə/ · /jiː/ · [jɐ] · [jɪ] · [jɛ] · [ji] · /jeɪ/

Definition of ye

8 senses · 5 parts of speech · etymology included

pron

  1. (Cornwall, Ireland, Newfoundland, personal, pronoun)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.”
    “Queſtion me then no more; whate'er ye want, / Ask in my Name, and God ſhall ſurely grant. / You've asked nothing yet for Jesus sake : / Ask and receive, and of my joyes partake.”
    “Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.”
    “Know Ye that We have declared and by these Presents do declare our Will and Pleasure as follows—[…]”
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pron

  1. (Cornwall, Ireland, Newfoundland, personal, pronoun)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.”
    “Queſtion me then no more; whate'er ye want, / Ask in my Name, and God ſhall ſurely grant. / You've asked nothing yet for Jesus sake : / Ask and receive, and of my joyes partake.”
    “Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.”
    “Know Ye that We have declared and by these Presents do declare our Will and Pleasure as follows—[…]”
  2. (archaic, personal, pronoun)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; [...]”
    “Maybe they'd get hurted!" said the boys. "Hurted, how-are-ye!" says Hughie; "How could anyone get hurted so simple as that? I'd be the last in the world to speak of such a thing in that case! But if yous are afraid of doing it..."”

article

  1. (archaic, definite)The.
    “Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe”
    “Now vnto yͤ king eternal, immortall, inuiſible, the onely wiſe God, be honour and glory for euer ⁊ euer. Amen.”
    “It being one cheife proiect of yᵉ ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men from the knowledge of Scriptures, as in formʳ times by keeping yᵐ in an unknowne tongue, so in these lattʳ times by perswading from yᵉ use of tongues, yᵗ so at least yᵉ true sence & meaning of yᵉ originall might be clouded by false glosses of saint seeming deceivers, yᵗ learning may not be buried in yᵉ church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting oʳ endeavoʳs,”

intj

  1. (slang)Yes, yeah.

noun

  1. The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages.

name

  1. A surname from Chinese.
  2. (slang)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.”
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Young Earth, a form of creationism which proposes that the Earth is no more than a few thousand years old.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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…

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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.

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