/jiː/
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Translation
A very old word for you, used when speaking to more than one person. You hear it in old stories, songs, and some dialects.
Word origin
From Old English ge, the plural of thou, used when speaking to more than one person. It faded as "you" took over both jobs.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- ge
- English cognates
- you
Examples
, , !
Old or story-book English; today we would just say "you".
Ireland, " ?" .
Some dialects keep "ye" as the plural of "you".
" Olde ".
In shop names like this, "ye" is actually an old way of writing "the", not the word for you.
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