thou

Senso (Inglese)

Pron

Nominative singular of ye (“you”).

Verb

1. (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.
2. (intransitive) To use the word thou.

Noun

A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).

Noun

A thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).

Adv

Misspelling of though.

Conj

Misspelling of though.

ye

• Pron
• Article
• Intj
• Noun

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Concetti

tu

migliaio

mille

1000

Lei

M

tu

Opposto di

you

sinonimi

you

thee

thousand

thy

millenary

thine

thyself

yard

ye

yourself

G

K

M

Ⓜ️

one thousand

SG

1000

yer

U

grand

chiliad

grand

mil

Traduzioni

du

tu

jij

tú

je

εσύ

tu

gij

tu

tu

você

sen

vous

ge

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ðaʊ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: thou

Ereditato da inglese antico: þū

Affine saterfriesisch: du

Affine frisone occidentale: do

Affine olandese: du

Affine limburghese: doe

Affine basso tedesco: du

Affine tedesco: du

Affine danese: du

Affine svedese: du

Affine faroese: tú

Affine islandese: þú

Affine gotico: 𐌸𐌿

Affine latino: tu

Affine greco antico: σύ

Affine greco antico: τύ

Affine greco: εσύ

Affine irlandese: tu

Affine lituano: tu

Affine slavo ecclesiastico: ty

Affine gallese: ti

Affine armeno: դու

Affine albanese: ti

Affine persiano: تو

Ereditato da inglese medio: thouen

In summary

From Middle English thou, tho, thogh, thoue, thouȝ, thow, thowe, tou, towe, thu, thue, thugh, tu, you (Northern England), ðhu, þeou, þeu, þou (the latter three early Southwest England), from Old English þū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū (“you (singular), thou”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you, thou”).
cognates and usage evolution
The English word is cognate with Saterland Frisian du (“thou”), West Frisian do (“thou”), dialectal Dutch du, dou, douw (“thou”), Limburgish doe (“thou”), Low German du (“thou”), German du (“thou”), Danish du (“thou”), Swedish du (“thou”), Norwegian Nynorsk du (“thou”), Faroese tú (“thou”), Icelandic þú (“thou”), Gothic 𐌸𐌿 (þu, “thou”), Latin tu, Ancient Greek σύ (sú) (Doric Ancient Greek τύ (tú), Greek εσύ (esý)), Irish tu, Lithuanian tu, Old Church Slavonic тꙑ (ty), Welsh ti, Armenian դու (du), Albanian ti, Persian تو (to).
The informality of thou and its replacement by ye in formal situations date only to the 14th century and come from French influence, since French (as many European languages, but not Old English) uses the second-person plural (vous) instead of the second-person singular (tu) as a mark of politeness or respect.