thy

• enPR: thī, IPA^(key): /ðaɪ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ

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.

thy

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

   Synonym: (before vowels) thine

• thee
• thine
• thou
• thyself
• your

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.

• why
• forwhy

thy

1. dialectal form of thyer

thy

1. alternative form of þi (“thy”)

thy

1. alternative form of þe (“the”)

thy

1. alternative form of þe (“thee”)

thy

1. alternative form of þei (“they”)

thy

1. alternative spelling of þy (“the”)

thy

1. alternative spelling of þy (“thigh”)

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.

thy

1. therefore, for that reason

• dee

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ðɑe/
• (Orkney) IPA^(key): /ði/
• (Shetland) IPA^(key): /di/

thy

1. (archaic outside Orkney and Shetland) thy, your (possessive form of thou)

• Regularly used throughout Scotland up until the middle of the 1800s; now only used as an archaism outside Shetland and Orkney.

• “thy, poss. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.