# thy
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: thī, IPA: /ðaɪ/
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* Rhymes: -aɪ

### Etymology 1

From Middle English þi, apocopated variant of þin, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“thou”). See thou.

#### Determiner

thy
* (archaic, dialectal, literary) Possessive form of thou: that which belongs to thee; which belongs to you (singular).
    Synonym: (before vowels) thine

##### Derived terms

* beggar-thy-neighbor

##### Translations

Arabic: ـك (ar) (-k) (-ak, -uk(a), etc. pronunciation differs according to case or level of language formality, 'ismak - "your name"")
Egyptian Arabic: (owner is male) ـك (-ak, -k), (owner is female) ـك (-ek, -ki)
Azerbaijani: sənin
Belarusian: твой (tvoj)
Bulgarian: твой (tvoj)
Catalan: teu (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 你嘅 (nei$^5$ ge$^3$)
Mandarin: 你的 (nǐde)
Coptic: (owner is male) ⲡⲉⲕ m (pek) ⲧⲉⲕ f (tek) ⲛⲉⲕ m pl or f pl (nek), (owner is female) ⲡⲉ m (pe) ⲧⲉ f (te) ⲛⲉ m pl or f pl (ne)
Czech: tvůj (cs)
Danish: din (da)
Dutch: je (nl)
Egyptian: (owner is male) (.k), (owner is female) (.ṯ)
Esperanto: cia (eo)
Faroese: tín
Finnish: sinun ...si, -si (fi), sinun (fi)
French: ton (fr) m, ta (fr) f, tes (fr) pl
Georgian: შენი (šeni)
German: dein (de) m or n, deine (de) f, deine (de) pl
Gothic: 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 m (þeins), þeina f, þein n, þeinata n, 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰 f (þeina), 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽 n (þein), 𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌰 n (þeinata)
Hebrew: שלך (he) m (shelkhá)
Hindi: तेरा (hi) (terā), तुम्हारा (hi) (tumhārā)
Italian: tuo (it)
Japanese: 汝の (nanji no), 汝が (na ga)
Korean: 네 (ko) (ne), 너의 (neoui)
Macanese: vôs-sa
Macedonian: твој (tvoj)
Polish: twój (pl)
Portuguese: teu (pt) m, tua (pt) f
Russian: твой (ru) (tvoj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: твој
Roman: tvoj
Slovak: tvoj (sk)
Slovene: tvój (sl)
Spanish: tu (es), tuyo (es)
Swedish: din (sv) c, ditt (sv) n, dina (sv) pl
Tagalog: iyong, mo
Turkish: senin (tr)
Ukrainian: твій (uk) (tvij)
Urdu: تیرا (terā), تمھارا (tumhārā)
Vietnamese: của mày, của em :
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##### See also

* thee
* thine
* thou
* thyself
* your

### Etymology 2
#### Conjunction

thy
* (obsolete) Only used in for thy, for-thy, which is an alternative form of forthy (“because, therefore”)
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:For-thy it round and hollow shaped was, Like to the world itselfe, and seem'd aworld of glass.
** 1713, Robert Sanders, transl., The Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace:Wallace knew well the Englishmen would flee, For thy he thrusted in the thickest to be, Hewing full fast on whomsoever he fought, Against his dint fine steel availed nought.
** 1791, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, William TAYLOR (of Norwich.), Nathan the Wise. A dramatic poem, page 24:For thy it bring: us nearer to the Godhead is nonsense, Daya, if not blasphemy.

### See also

* why
* forwhy

## Albanian
### Participle

thy
* Dialectal form of thyer

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Determiner

thy
* Alternative form of þi (“thy”)

### Etymology 2
#### Determiner

thy
* Alternative form of þe (“the”)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronoun

thy
* Alternative form of þe (“thee”)

### Etymology 4
#### Pronoun

thy
* Alternative form of þei (“they”)

### Etymology 5
#### Adverb

thy
* Alternative spelling of þy (“the”)

### Etymology 6
#### Noun

thy (plural thies)
* Alternative spelling of þy (“thigh”)

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse því, possibly from the instrumental interrogative Proto-Germanic *hwī (“how, with what”), with the initial h- replaced by the þ- from the forms of *sa.

### Adverb

thy
* therefore, for that reason

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* dee

### Etymology

From þi, apocopated variant of Middle English þin, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *téynos (“thy; thine”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ðɑe/
* (Orkney) IPA: /ði/
* (Shetland) IPA: /di/

### Determiner

thy
* (archaic outside Orkney and Shetland) thy, your (possessive form of thou)

#### Usage notes

* Regularly used throughout Scotland up until the middle of the 1800s; now only used as an archaism outside Shetland and Orkney.

#### References

* “thy, poss. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.