ye

Meaning

Pron

1. (Cornwall, Ireland, Newfoundland, personal, pronoun) You (the people being addressed).
2. (archaic, personal, pronoun) You (the singular person being addressed).

Article

The.

Intj

Yes, yeah.

Noun

The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages.

Synonyms

you

your

thou

you pl.

colour of white man’s skin

pink

yer

thee

Translations

vous

ge

ustedes

u

voi

jullie

vosotros

ihr

je

gij

Ihr

te

toi

tu

υμείς

Pronounced as (IPA)

/jiː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: ye

Inherited from Old English: ġē

Cognate with Scots: ye

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: jie

Cognate with Dutch: gij

Cognate with Low German: ji

Cognate with German: ihr

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Swedish: -

Cognate with Icelandic: ér

Inherited from Middle English: þe

In summary

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 *yúHs (“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”), Sanskrit यूयम् (yūyám, “ye”). See also you.