# ty
## Translingual
### Symbol

ty
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tahitian.

## English
### Interjection

ty
* (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of TY.

### Anagrams

* Y. T., YT, yt, Y.T.

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tə̟i̯]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ty (plural tye)
* (poetic, literary) tide
    Synonym: gety

#### Derived terms

* tyhawe

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tuu̯an, from earlier *tuu̯ān, from earlier *tuu̯ām, from Proto-Indo-European *tuu̯ēm (*twé, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”)). Compare Latin te.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ty/
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### Pronoun

ty
* (personal) accusative of ti, you (singular)

#### Related terms

* ti
* teje
* të

### References

* ↑ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 216

## Cornish
### Alternative forms

* te (Standard Cornish)

### Pronoun

ty
* you (informal second person singular pronoun)
* thou
* thee

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech ty, from Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɪ]
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

ty
* (personal) you, thou (second person singular)
    Kdybych byl tebou, udělal bych to samé. ― If I were you, I would do the same.

#### Derived terms

* tykat

#### Related terms

* animate referents only, for inanimate ones ony is used.

### Pronoun

ty
* inflection of ten:
** animate masculine accusative plural
** inanimate masculine nominative/accusative plural
** feminine nominative/accusative plural

### Further reading

* “ty”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “ty”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “ty”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse þýða (“to make friends”), Proto-Germanic *þiudijaną, cognate with Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þiuþjan, “to bless”). It may originally be the same verb as *þiudijaną (“to interpret”), which is the source of Old Norse þýða (whence Danish tyde) and German deuten.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtˢyˀ]

### Verb

ty (imperative ty, present tyr or tyer, past tense tyede, past participle tyet)
* to turn to, resort to

## Eastern Katu
### Adjective

ty
* ancient

#### Derived terms

* ty đanh

## Guaraní
### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

ty
* urine

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* (phoneme): IPA: [ˈc]
* (letter name): IPA: [ˈceː]

### Letter

ty (lower case, upper case Ty)
* The thirty-third letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called tyé and written in the Latin script.

#### Declension
### See also

* (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, Z z, Zs zs. Only in the extended alphabet: Q q W w X x Y y. Commonly used: ch. Also defined: à ë. In surnames (selection): ä aa cz ds eé eö ew oe oó th ts ÿ.

### Further reading

* ty in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tɨ]

### Pronoun

ty sg
* you (singular, informal)

#### Declension

¹ Both śi and tebje are used when no preposition precedes, but after a preposition only tebje is used.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

ty
* Alternative form of teye (“chest, enclosure”)

### Etymology 2
#### Determiner

ty
* (chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of þi (“thy”)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse þýða.

#### Verb

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tytt/tydd, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)
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### Etymology 2

From Old Norse týja.

#### Verb

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tytt/tydd, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)
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### Etymology 3

From Old Norse tygi (“tool”).

#### Noun

ty n (definite singular tyet, indefinite plural ty, definite plural tya or tyi)
* (pre-2012) alternative form of tøy

### References

* 1 2 “ty” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* yt

## Nǀuu
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /c/, /kʲ/

### Letter

ty
* A letter of the Nǀuu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

### References

* Shah, Sheena & Brenzinger, Matthias. (2017). Writing for Speaking: The Nǀuu Orthography. 10.1017/9781316562949.006.

## Old Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈtɨ/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈti/

### Pronoun

ty (second person)
* (personal) second person singular; you

#### Descendants

* Czech: ty

### References

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “ty”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ty. First attested in the 13th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /tɨ/
* IPA: (15th CE) /tɨ/

### Pronoun

ty
* singular non-formal second person pronoun thou, you

#### Descendants

* Polish: ty
* Silesian: ty

### References

* B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “ty”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

## Old Tupi
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tɨ (“liquid, urine”), from Proto-Tupian *tˀɨ (“liquid, urine”). Doublet of y.
Cognate with Sateré-Mawé hɨ (“river”), Guaraní ty (“urine”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɨ/
* Rhymes: -ɨ
* Hyphenation: ty

### Noun

ty (possessable)
* urine

### Noun

ty
* absolute of y
* R2 of y

### Adjective

ty
* R2 of y

### References

* ↑ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, pages 403–404
* ↑ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB

### Further reading

* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ty”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 485, column 1

## Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ty.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɘ/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /tɨ/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɘ
* Syllabification: ty
* Homophone: -ty

### Pronoun

ty
* you (second person singular pronoun)

#### Usage notes

Ty is the T-form; it is used to address friends, family, children, teenagers, and often peers. The V-forms are pan m and pani f.

#### Declension
### See also

* Appendix:Polish pronouns

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ty is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 2 times in essays, 250 times in fiction, and 1034 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1292 times, making it the 31st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “ty”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 617

### Further reading

* ty in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* ty in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* “TY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2019 September 4
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 181

## Silesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ty.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɪ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪ
* Syllabification: ty

### Pronoun

ty
* you singular second person pronoun

#### Declension
### Further reading

* ty in silling.org

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak ty, from Proto-Slavic *ty.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ti]

### Pronoun

ty
* you
* thou

#### Related terms

* masculine animate only, ony otherwise

### Further reading

* “ty”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish þy, from Old Norse því.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tyː/
* Audio:(file)

### Conjunction

ty
* (archaic, poetic, biblical) for (because)
    Synonyms: därför att, eftersom, emedan, för
    ty riket är ditt ― for the kingdom is yours

#### Usage notes

ty as well as för always introduces a main clause, while the other given synonyms all introduces secondary clauses. Compare:
* Hon gick inte och lade sig, ty/för hon var inte trött.
* Hon gick inte och lade sig, därför att/eftersom/emedan hon inte var trött.

### Verb

ty (present tyr, preterite tydde, supine tytt, imperative ty)
* to cling to, to turn to [someone/something] for protection or comfort.
    När barn blir rädda tyr de sig oftast till sina föräldrarWhen children get scared, they usually turn to their parents for comfort.

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

### Further reading

* ty in Svensk ordbok.

## Tapayuna
### Etymology

From Proto-Northern Jê *ˀcy (“seed”) < Proto-Cerrado *cym (“seed”) < Proto-Jê *cym (“seed”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t̪ɨ/

### Noun

ty
* seed

## Upper Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

### Pronoun

ty
* you, thou

#### Declension
## Xhosa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʲ/

### Letter

ty (upper case Ty)
* A digraph in Xhosa orthography.

## Yola
### Etymology

Perhaps cognate with English tea (“a cup or glass of any of these drinks”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiː/

### Noun

ty
* drink
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Ty o' letch.A drink of small beer.

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 73