Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 20 hours ago11 years agoi.postimg.ccexternal-linkmessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1586arrow-down115
arrow-up1571arrow-down1external-link11 years agoi.postimg.ccBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square80fedilink
minus-squareResonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agoI believe I read somewhere that the singular for “they” used to be “thy”, but that makes language sound terribly old. Doubt it’ll get picked up in the mainstream
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·46 minutes agoI think “thy” is singular for “your”, “thou” would be singular “you”.
minus-squarezagaberoo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 hours ago‘Thy’ is the disused informal ‘your’. There’s ‘thou’/‘thee’ but that’s still second-person.
minus-squareResonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoInteresting! Do you have any etymological sources that go into this more? I’d be curious to learn
minus-squareAnimalsDream@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoThis looks like an alright starting place: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English
I believe I read somewhere that the singular for “they” used to be “thy”, but that makes language sound terribly old. Doubt it’ll get picked up in the mainstream
I think “thy” is singular for “your”, “thou” would be singular “you”.
‘Thy’ is the disused informal ‘your’. There’s ‘thou’/‘thee’ but that’s still second-person.
Interesting! Do you have any etymological sources that go into this more? I’d be curious to learn
This looks like an alright starting place:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English