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English

rank|sort|town|dark|437|ye|common|subject|can't

Etymology 1
From OE. term|ge|ġ�|lang=ang, the nominative case of the second person plural personal pronoun. See also term|you.

Pronunciation
a|RP & a|US IPA|/ji�/, SAMPA|/ji:/
audio|en-us-ye.ogg|Audio (US)
:rhymes|i�

Pronoun
en-pron|desc=personal pronoun

1. context|Northumbrian|Cornwall|archaic| you (the people being addressed).

Usage notes
term|ye|Ye was originally used only for the nominative case (as the subject), and only for the second person plural. Later, term|ye was used as a subject or an object, either singular or plural, which is the way that term|you is used today.

References
R:Dobson & Irwin Newcastle 1970

Etymology 2
From the ME. term|�e|lang=enm. Printers who couldn't reproduce the term|"�"||thorn character (which corresponds to the modern (voiceless) "th" sound, as in "thin", but later used for both th sounds), substituted a "y". Despite the use of 'y', it was still read as "the".

Pronunciation
a|stressed
:enPR|th�, IPA|/ði�/, SAMPA|/Di:/
:audio|en-us-the-stressed.ogg|Audio (US)
a|unstressed
enPR|th�, IPA|/ð�/, SAMPA|/D@/
:audio|en-ca-the.ogg|Audio (CA)
:audio|en-us-the-unstressed.ogg|Audio (US)

Article
infl|en|article

1. context|archaic|definite the

#:Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe.

Category:Indo-European root *yu-
Category:English two-letter words

Catawba

Noun
infl|chc|noun

1. man|Man i|adult male human, person.
2. Native American Indian.

Usage notes
The vowel sounds may permutate, and transcription methods differ, such that the word can be represented in any of the following ways: ye`, ye', ye´ (reflecting differing transcriptions); yé, yí, or yÄ� (reflecting vowel permutation); yä´n, inyen|iⁿyeⁿ, or įyÄ� (reflecting vowel permutation and differing transcription).

References
1858: Oscar M. Lieber, Vocabulary of the Catawba Language.
1900: Albert S. Gatschet, Grammatic Sketch of the Catawba Language (published in the American Anthropologist).
1942: Frank G. Speck and C. E. Shaeffer, Catawba Kinship and Social Organization.
1945: Frank T. Siebert, Jr., Linguistic Classification of Catawba (published in the International Journal of American Linguistics).

Ido

Preposition
infl|io|preposition

1. at

Mandarin

Pinyin syllable
ye

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, y�, yé, y�, or yè.

Usage notes
English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Category:Mandarin pinyin

de:ye
et:ye
es:ye
fr:ye
io:ye
it:ye
ku:ye
la:ye
hu:ye
ja:ye
fi:ye
te:ye
tr:ye
vo:ye
zh:ye

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