"thy" meaning in English

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Conjunction

IPA: /ðaɪ/ Audio: en-us-thy.ogg [US]
enPR: ''th''ī Rhymes: -aɪ Head templates: {{en-con}} thy
  1. (obsolete) Only used in for thy, for-thy, which is an alternative form of forthy (“because, therefore”) Tags: obsolete Related terms: why, forwhy
    Sense id: en-thy-en-conj-YczFMSvQ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Determiner

IPA: /ðaɪ/ Audio: en-us-thy.ogg [US]
enPR: ''th''ī Rhymes: -aɪ Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|þi}} Middle English þi, {{m|enm|þin}} þin, {{inh|en|ang|þīn}} Old English þīn, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*þīn}} Proto-West Germanic *þīn, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*þīnaz}} Proto-Germanic *þīnaz, {{inh|en|ine-pro|*téynos|t=thy; thine}} Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*túh₂|t=thou}} Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“thou”), {{l|en|thou}} thou Head templates: {{head|en|determiner|cat2=possessive determiners}} thy
  1. (archaic, dialectal, literary) Possessive form of thou: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular). Tags: archaic, dialectal, form-of, literary, possessive Form of: thou (extra: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular)) Derived forms: beggar-thy-neighbor Related terms: thee, thine, thou, thyself, your Translations (possessive determiner): ـك (-k) (alt: -ak, -uk(a), etc. pronunciation differs according to case or level of language formality, 'ismak - "your name"") (Arabic), ـك (-ak, -k) (english: owner is male) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), ـك (-ek, -ki) (english: owner is female) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), sənin (Azerbaijani), твой (tvoj) (Belarusian), твой (tvoj) (Bulgarian), teu [masculine] (Catalan), 你嘅 (nei⁵ ge³) (Chinese Cantonese), 你的 (nǐde) (Chinese Mandarin), ⲡⲉⲕ m ⲧⲉⲕ f ⲛⲉⲕ (tek) (english: owner is male) [feminine, masculine, plural] (Coptic), ⲡⲉ m ⲧⲉ f ⲛⲉ (te) (english: ne; owner is female) [feminine, masculine, plural] (Coptic), tvůj (Czech), din (Danish), je (Dutch), k (.k) (english: owner is male) (Egyptian), T (.ṯ) (english: owner is female) (Egyptian), cia (Esperanto), tín (Faroese), sinun ...si (Finnish), -si (Finnish), sinun (Finnish), ton [masculine] (French), ta [feminine] (French), tes [plural] (French), შენი (šeni) (Georgian), dein [masculine, neuter] (German), deine [feminine] (German), deine [plural] (German), 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (þeins) [masculine] (Gothic), þeina [feminine] (Gothic), þein [neuter] (Gothic), þeinata [neuter] (Gothic), 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰 (þeina) [feminine] (Gothic), 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽 (þein) [neuter] (Gothic), 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌰 (þeinata) [neuter] (Gothic), שלך (shelkhá) [masculine] (Hebrew), तेरा (terā) (Hindi), तुम्हारा (tumhārā) (Hindi), tuo (Italian), 汝の (nanji no) (Japanese), 汝が (na ga) (Japanese), (ne) (Korean), 너의 (neoui) (Korean), vôs-sa (Macanese), твој (tvoj) (Macedonian), twój (Polish), teu [masculine] (Portuguese), tua [feminine] (Portuguese), твой (tvoj) (Russian), твој [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), tvoj [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), tvoj (Slovak), tvój (Slovene), tu (Spanish), tuyo (Spanish), din [common-gender] (Swedish), ditt [neuter] (Swedish), dina [plural] (Swedish), iyong (Tagalog), mo (Tagalog), senin (Turkish), твій (tvij) (Ukrainian), تیرا (terā) (Urdu), تمھارا (tumhārā) (Urdu), của mày (Vietnamese), của em (Vietnamese)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Alternative forms

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          "code": "fi",
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
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          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "შენი"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
            "plural"
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        {
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          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "þeins",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "roman": "þeina",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "þein",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
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          "sense": "possessive determiner",
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        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "shelkhá",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "שלך"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "terā",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "तेरा"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "tumhārā",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "तुम्हारा"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "tuo"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nanji no",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "汝の"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "na ga",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "汝が"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "ne",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "네"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "neoui",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "너의"
        },
        {
          "code": "mzs",
          "lang": "Macanese",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "vôs-sa"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "tvoj",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "твој"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "twój"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "teu"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tua"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tvoj",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "твой"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
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          "word": "твој"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "tvoj"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "tvoj"
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          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "tvój"
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        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "tu"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "tuyo"
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "word": "din"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ditt"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
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            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "dina"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "iyong"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "mo"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "senin"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "tvij",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "твій"
        },
        {
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "terā",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "تیرا"
        },
        {
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "tumhārā",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "تمھارا"
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        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "của mày"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "possessive determiner",
          "word": "của em"
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        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene",
          "text": "For-thy it round and hollow shaped was, Like to the world itselfe, and seem'd aworld of glass.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1713, Robert Sanders, transl., The Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1791, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, William TAYLOR (of Norwich.), Nathan the Wise. A dramatic poem, page 24",
          "text": "For thy it bring: us nearer to the Godhead is nonsense, Daya, if not blasphemy.",
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        "Only used in for thy, for-thy, which is an alternative form of forthy (“because, therefore”)"
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          "forthy",
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      "audio": "en-us-thy.ogg",
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}
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    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
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    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
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    "English terms with audio links",
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      "word": "sənin"
    },
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "tvoj",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "твой"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tvoj",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "твой"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "teu"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "nei⁵ ge³",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "你嘅"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "nǐde",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "你的"
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      "english": "owner is male",
      "lang": "Coptic",
      "roman": "tek",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
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      "word": "ⲡⲉⲕ m ⲧⲉⲕ f ⲛⲉⲕ"
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      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
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      "word": "ⲡⲉ m ⲧⲉ f ⲛⲉ"
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      "word": "din"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "je"
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      "word": "k"
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      "word": "T"
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      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "cia"
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    {
      "code": "fo",
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      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "tín"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "sinun ...si"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
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      "word": "-si"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "sinun"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "ta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "tes"
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    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "šeni",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "შენი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
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        "neuter"
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      "word": "dein"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "deine"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "word": "deine"
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    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "þeins",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃"
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    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "got",
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      "code": "got",
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      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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    {
      "code": "got",
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      "code": "he",
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      "word": "שלך"
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    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "terā",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "तेरा"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "tumhārā",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "तुम्हारा"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "tuo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nanji no",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "汝の"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "na ga",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "汝が"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ne",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "네"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "neoui",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "너의"
    },
    {
      "code": "mzs",
      "lang": "Macanese",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "vôs-sa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "tvoj",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "твој"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "twój"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "teu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tua"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tvoj",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "твой"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "твој"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
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      "word": "tvoj"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "tvoj"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "tvój"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "tu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "tuyo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "din"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ditt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "dina"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "iyong"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "mo"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "senin"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tvij",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "твій"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "terā",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "تیرا"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "tumhārā",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "تمھارا"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "của mày"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "possessive determiner",
      "word": "của em"
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene",
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          "ref": "1713, Robert Sanders, transl., The Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.