Ye

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English

Etymology 1

From Old English ġē, the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun. See also you.

Alternative forms

  • ȝe (chiefly in Middle English)

Pronunciation

Pronoun

Ye personal pronoun

  1. (dialectal, Northern England, Cornish, Irish or archaic) you (the people being addressed).

Notes

Ye was originally used only for the nominative case (as the subject), and only for the second-person plural. Later, ye was used as a subject or an object, either singular or plural, which is the way that you is used today.

Derived terms

References
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

Verb

Ye (present participle yeyn)

  1. (obsolete) Address a single person by the use of the pronoun ye instead of thou.
    • 1483, Catholicon Anglicum: An English–Latin Wordbook (Monson 168), page 426
      To ȝe, vosare jn plurali numero vos vestrum vel tibi [perh. read vobis].
    • 1511, Promptorium Parvulorum (de Worde), sig. M.iiiᵛ/2
      Yeyn or sey ye with worshyp, viso.

Synonyms

  • (address by the pronoun ye): yeet (obsolete)
Antonyms
  • (address by the pronoun ye): thowt (obsolete)

Etymology 2

From Middle English þe. The letter y is a variant of þ (“thorn”), a letter which corresponds to modern th. Etymological y was for a time distinguished by a dot, ẏ, but the letters conflated when that was dropped. Despite the occasional modern use of y in the word, it is still read as the.

Pronunciation

Article

Ye

  1. (archaic, definite) the
    Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe.

Derived terms

Statistics

Anagrams

Catawba

Noun

Ye

  1. Man (adult male human), person.
  2. Native American Indian.

Notes

The vowel sounds may permutate, and transcription methods differ, such that the word can be represented in any of the following ways: ye`, ye', ye´ (reflecting differing transcriptions); yé, yí, or yę (reflecting vowel permutation); yä´n, inyen, or įyę (reflecting vowel permutation and differing transcription).

References

  • 1858: Oscar M. Lieber, Vocabulary of the Catawba Language.
  • 1900: Albert S. Gatschet, Grammatic Sketch of the Catawba Language (published in the American Anthropologist).
  • 1942: Frank G. Speck and C. E. Shaeffer, Catawba Kinship and Social Organization.
  • 1945: Frank T. Siebert, Jr., Linguistic Classification of Catawba (published in the International Journal of American Linguistics).

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Verb

Ye

  1. Form of se used at the end of a phrase, after the predicate and the subject, in that order; to be.
    Kimoun ou ye? (Who are you?; literally, Who you are?)

Ido

Preposition

Ye

  1. at

Mandarin

Adverb

Ye (Pinyin yě, traditional and simplified 也)

  1. also
    shijieshang meiyou yongyuan de pengyou ye meiyou yongyuan de diren.
    there is no constant friend and also no constant enemy in the world.

Derived terms

Noun

Ye (Pinyin yè, traditional and simplified 夜)

  1. Leaf of a plant
  2. night

Derived terms

Pinyin syllable

ye

  1. Nonstandard spelling of yē.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of yé.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of yě.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of yè.

Notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

Ye (plural)

  1. eyes
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye - General Prologue, Canterbury Tales, ll. 9-10

Scots

Pronoun

Ye

  1. you

Spanish

Noun

Ye

  1. Name of the letter y.

Synonyms

Volapük

Conjunction

Ye

  1. however

de:ye et:ye es:ye fr:ye ko:ye io:ye it:ye ku:ye la:ye lt:ye hu:ye ja:ye pl:ye pt:ye simple:ye fi:ye sv:ye te:ye tr:ye vo:ye zh:ye

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