English Explanatory Dictionary

ye

English dictionary entry

Meanings

pron
  1. You (the people being addressed).
  2. You (the singular person being addressed).
article
  1. The.
intj
  1. Yes, yeah.
noun
  1. The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages.
name
  1. A surname from Chinese.
name
  1. Kanye West, American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.
name
  1. Initialism of Young Earth, a form of creationism which proposes that the Earth is no more than a few thousand years old.

Pronunciation

yē /jiː/ [jɪi] [ji(ː)] /(j)iː/ /jɪ/ /jə/ en-us-ye.ogg [jɐ] [jɪ] [jɛ] [ji] yā /jeɪ/ en-us-yea.ogg

Word forms

ye yͤ yes

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 *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.

Synonyms

y'all

Derived words

abandon hope, all ye who enter here all hope abandon ye who enter here come-all-ye d'ye harkye hear ye how do ye do oh ye of little faith O ye of little faith seek and ye shall find thank ye thank ye so very much ye'd ye gods ye gods and little fishes ye'll ye of little faith ye're yere y'ere yeres ye've ye olde
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