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ye

pron
/jiː/UK/(j)iː//jə//jeɪ/

Etymology

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.

  1. inherited from *yúHs✻ — “ye”
  2. inherited from *jūz✻ — “ye”
  3. derived from *jīz✻
  4. inherited from *jiʀ✻
  5. inherited from ġē — “ye”
  6. inherited from ye

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. 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..."

  3. The.

    • Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe
    • Now vnto yͤ king eternal, immortall, inuiſible, the onely wiſe God, be honour and glory for euer ⁊ euer. Amen.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Yes, yeah.

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

    3. A surname from Chinese.

    4. 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.

    5. Initialism of Young Earth, a form of creationism which proposes that the Earth is no more…

      Initialism of Young Earth, a form of creationism which proposes that the Earth is no more than a few thousand years old.

The neighborhood

Derived

abandon hope, all ye who enter here, all hope abandon ye who enter here, come-all-ye, d'ye, harkye, hear ye, how do ye do, oh ye of little faith, O ye of little faith, seek and ye shall find, thank ye, thank ye so very much, ye'd, ye gods, ye gods and little fishes, ye'll, ye of little faith, ye're, yere, y'ere, yeres, ye've

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ye. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA