Ye vs Yaa - What's the difference?
ye | yaa |
(archaic, outside, Northern England, Cornwall, Ireland) You (the people being addressed).
(obsolete) a (l) person by the use of the (l) (term) instead of thou.
* 1483 , Catholicon Anglicum: An English–Latin Wordbook (Monson 168), page 426
* 1511 , Promptorium Parvulorum (de Worde), sig. M.iii?/2
(archaic, definite) the
* 1647 , The old deluder, Satan, Act''. (cited in ''American Public School Law , K. Alexander, M. Alexander, 1995)
* Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe .
As a pronoun ye
is you (the people being addressed).As a verb ye
is address a single person by the use of the pronoun {{term||ye}} instead of {{term|thou|lang=en}}.As an article ye
is the.As a proper noun Ye
is anglicized version of the 42nd most common Chinese surname.As a noun yaa is
the letter ي in the Arabic script.ye
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ye, . See also you.Alternative forms
* (chiefly in Middle English)Pronoun
Usage notes
was originally used only for the nominative case (as the subject), and only for the second-person plural. Later, ye was used as a subject or an object, either singular or plural, which is the way that you is used today.Derived terms
* d'ye * hear ye * ye'd * ye gods * ye'll * ye're * ye'veReferences
*Verb
- To ?e , vosare jn plurali numero vos vestrum vel tibi'' [''perh. read vobis].
- Yeyn or sey ye with worshyp, viso .
Synonyms
* (l) (obsolete)Antonyms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 2
From (etyl) , but the letters were conflated when that was dropped.Article
(head)- It being one cheife proiect of ye''' ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men from the knowledge of v Scriptures, as in formr times by keeping ym in an unknowne tongue, so in these lattr times by perswading from '''ye''' use of tongues, yt so at least '''ye''' true sence & meaning of '''ye''' originall might be clouded by false glosses of saint seeming deceivers, yt learning may not be buried in '''ye church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting or endeavors,—