Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ye

/jiː/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.25 in modern English

Syllables
ye
IPA
/jiː/
5
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars

Meaning

pron

You (the people being addressed).

pron

You (the singular person being addressed).

Archaic

article

The.

Archaic

intj

Yes, yeah.

Slang

name

A surname from Chinese.

name

Initialism of Young Earth, a form of creationism which proposes that the Earth is no more than a few thousand years old.

Example Sentences

Etymology

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: ye, ġē, *jiʀ, *jīz, *jūz, *yúHs

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /jiː/
  • British English: /jiː/

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in People.

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Questions

How do you pronounce ye?
The recorded pronunciation is /jiː/.
What does ye mean?
You (the people being addressed).
Where does ye come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce ye

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