"ye" meaning in English

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Article

IPA: /jiː/
Etymology: From Middle English þe. Early press typographies 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). Short form yͤ continued long after the digraph th had replaced þ elsewhere. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|þe}} Middle English þe Head templates: {{head|en|article}} ye
  1. (archaic, definite) The. Tags: archaic, definite Synonyms: Derived forms: ye olde
    Sense id: en-ye-en-article-kSkBF2TF Categories (other): English articles
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Interjection

IPA: /jə/, [jɐ], [jɪ]
Etymology: Shortened from yes or yeah. Head templates: {{en-interj}} ye
  1. (slang) Yes, yeah. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-ye-en-intj-SVPK0cya Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English personal pronouns, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 28 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 55 11 29 6 Disambiguation of English personal pronouns: 4 67 5 19 4 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 0 62 8 22 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 28 entries: 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 5 1 16 3 5 1 0 0 1 6 2 6 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 5 5 13 3 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 4 1 17 2 6 1 0 0 0 7 1 7 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 1 1 6 7 16 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 0 41 23 13 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 0 72 7 16 5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Noun

Forms: yes [plural]
Etymology: From Russian е (je). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ru|е}} Russian е (je) Head templates: {{en-noun}} ye (plural yes)
  1. The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages. Categories (topical): Cyrillic letter names Translations (Е): iê [masculine] (Portuguese), е (je) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-ye-en-noun-ckG~jv2I Disambiguation of Cyrillic letter names: 0 12 83 3 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 4

Pronoun

IPA: /jiː/ [UK, US], [jɪi] [UK, US], [ji(ː)] [UK, US] Audio: en-us-ye.ogg
enPR: yē [UK, US] Rhymes: -iː 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 Proto-Germanic *jūz (“ye”), from Proto-Indo-European *yūs, *yū́ (“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”). See also you. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ye}} Middle English ye, {{inh|en|ang|ġē|t=ye}} Old English ġē (“ye”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*jiʀ}} Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, {{der|en|gem-pro|*jīz}} Proto-Germanic *jīz, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*jūz|t=ye}} Proto-Germanic *jūz (“ye”), {{inh|en|ine-pro|*yūs}} Proto-Indo-European *yūs, {{cog|sco|ye|t=ye}} Scots ye (“ye”), {{cog|stq|jie}} Saterland Frisian jie, {{cog|nl|gij}} Dutch gij, {{cog|nds|ji}} Low German ji, {{cog|de|ihr|t=ye}} German ihr (“ye”), {{cog|da|-}} Danish, {{cog|sv|-}} Swedish, {{cog|is|ér|t=ye}} Icelandic ér (“ye”), {{cog|lv|jūs|t=ye}} Latvian jūs (“ye”) Head templates: {{head|en|pronoun|personal pronoun||||||||||||||||||head=}} ye (personal pronoun), {{en-pron|desc=personal pronoun}} ye (personal pronoun)
  1. (archaic outside Northern England, Cornwall, Ireland, Newfoundland, Ottawa Valley) You (the people being addressed). Tags: Cornwall, Ireland, Newfoundland, personal, pronoun
    Sense id: en-ye-en-pron-SC4AGfp2 Categories (other): Cornish English, Irish English, Newfoundland English, Northern England English, English 2-letter words, English pronouns Disambiguation of English 2-letter words: 0 23 19 36 22 Disambiguation of English pronouns: 71 29
  2. (archaic) You (the singular person being addressed). Tags: archaic, personal, pronoun
    Sense id: en-ye-en-pron-yw-wPM6o Categories (other): English second person pronouns Disambiguation of English second person pronouns: 4 30 9 10 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: y'all [plural, second-person]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "abandon hope all ye who enter here"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "all hope abandon ye who enter here"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hear ye"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "how do ye do"
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      "word": "oh ye of little faith"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "word": "thank ye"
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      "word": "ye gods"
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        "16": "",
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          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 6, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1995, Elizabeth II, “Legal Notice 247 of 1996”, in Hong Kong Government Gazette, page B1096:",
          "text": "Know Ye that We have declared and by these Presents do declare our Will and Pleasure as follows—[…]",
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          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 23:",
          "text": "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; [...]",
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      "ipa": "[jɪi]",
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          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 1:17, column 2:",
          "text": "Now vnto yͤ king eternal, immortall, inuiſible, the onely wiſe God, be honour and glory for euer ⁊ euer. Amen.",
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          "ref": "1647, The old deluder, Satan, Act. (cited in American Public School Law, K. Alexander, M. Alexander, 1995)",
          "text": "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,"
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          "text": "Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe (pseudoarchaic)"
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      "word": "oh ye of little faith"
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      "word": "seek and ye shall find"
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      "word": "thank ye so very much"
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      "word": "ye gods"
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      "word": "ye gods and little fishes"
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      "word": "ye'll"
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          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 512:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 6, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church:",
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          "ref": "1995, Elizabeth II, “Legal Notice 247 of 1996”, in Hong Kong Government Gazette, page B1096:",
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          "ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 23:",
          "text": "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; [...]",
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