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Meaning 1
The.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, definite
Examples
- Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe
Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
ye
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/jiː/
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/jə/
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[jɐ]
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[jɪ]
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[jɛ]
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[ji]
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yā
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/jeɪ/
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rhymes with -eɪ
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homophone: yay
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homophone: yea
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UK, US: yē
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UK, US: /jiː/
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UK, US: [jɪi]
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UK, US: [ji(ː)]
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/(j)iː/ stressed form
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unstressed: /jɪ/
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unstressed: /jə/
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rhymes with -iː
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CMU ARPABET: Y IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: Y EH1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
intj
Meaning 2
Yes, yeah.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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name
Meaning 3
A surname from Chinese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 4
Kanye West, American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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name
Meaning 5
Initialism of Young Earth, a form of creationism which proposes that the Earth is no more than a few thousand years old.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Meaning 6
The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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pron
Meaning 7
You (the people being addressed).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cornwall, Ireland, Newfoundland, personal, pronoun
Qualifier: archaic outside Northern England; Ottawa Valley; archaic outside Northern England; Ottawa Valley
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pron
Meaning 8
You (the singular person being addressed).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, personal, pronoun
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History
Etymology
From Middle English þe. Early press typographies in late 15th century lacked the letter þ (“thorn”), for which the letter y was substituted due to their resemblance in blackletter hand (etymological y was for a while distinguished by a dot, ẏ (14th c.–15th c.)). Short form yͤ continued long after the digraph th had replaced þ elsewhere. "Ye" for "þe" continued in manuscripts through the 18th century. The practice was revived in the United Kingdom in the 19th century as a deliberate antiquarianism in shop names, thus the Ye Olde ... Shoppe construction.
Shortened from yes or yeah.
Romanization of the Chinese surname 葉 /叶 (Yè).
Clipping of Kanye.
From Russian е (je).
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.
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Portuguese: iê — Е
- Russian: е (je) — Е