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Below each Middle English pronoun, the Modern English is shown in italics (with archaic forms in parentheses) Person / gender Subject Object Possessive determiner Possessive pronoun Reflexive; Singular First ic / ich / I I: me / mi me: min / minen [pl.] my: min / mire / minre mine: min one / mi seluen myself: Second þou / þu / tu / þeou you ...
In archaic language, mine and thine may be used in place of my and thy when followed by a vowel sound. For the use of me instead of I, see I (pronoun) § Coordinative constructions; An archaic form of plural you as a subject pronoun is ye. Some dialects now use ye in place of you, or as an apocopated or clitic form of you. See ye.
will not (archaic) won’t: will not wonnot: will not (archaic) would’ve: would have wouldn’t: would not wouldn’t’ve: would not have y’ain’t: you are not / you have not / you did not (colloquial) y’all: you all (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’d’ve: you all would have (colloquial/Southern American English) y ...
It is now largely archaic, having been replaced in most contexts by the word you, although it remains in use in parts of Northern England and in Scots (/ðu:/). Thou is the nominative form; the oblique / objective form is thee (functioning as both accusative and dative ); the possessive is thy (adjective) or thine (as an adjective before a ...
Archaic English words and phrases (1 C, 19 P) L. Latin words and phrases (22 C, 379 P) P. Pali words and phrases (36 P) S. Sanskrit words and phrases (5 C, 318 P)
-me, e.g. furiiza-me "That damn Freeza!" or kawaii yatsu-me "That darn cutie!" (Possibly from an archaic Japanese word, me, meaning "wife," "woman," or "female") No problem with the first sentence; but the parenthetic about me coming from an archaic word for female looks specious. Please supply a source for it, otherwise I will remove it.
AD-GI 4, Archaic Word List C, "tribute", [7] a misnomer based on identification of gú/gún with tax, a concise archaic Sumerian, or perhaps proto-Euphratic, word list of animals, numbers, foodstuff and agricultural terminology [8]: 183 embedded in a thanksgiving ritual, first encountered in Uruk and later in Ur and Fāra [9] [KAV 46-47, 63-65 ...
Disect is an archaic word meaning "to separate by cutting", but has not been in common use since the 17th century. Standard: The Americas are bisected by the Panama canal. Standard: She dissected Smith's dissertation, pointing out scores of errors. Standard: We dissected the eye of a bull in biology class today.