thee
pronomeverboverbosostantivoarticolocorrente nei dialoghi
- //ðiː//
- //θiː//
To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
pronome
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arcaicoObjective and reflexive case of thou.
Prince Henry: Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part? Falstaff: No; I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all there.
Michael, this my behest have thou in charge, Take to thee from among the Cherubim Thy choice of flaming Warriours, least the Fiend
Come, O thou Traveller unknown, / Whom still I hold, but cannot see! / My company before is gone, / And I am left alone with Thee; / With Thee all night I mean to stay, / And wrestle till the break of day.
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arcaicoThou.
[H]e immediately perceived when I was taken ill, and, after seeing Mama, said to me "I am afraid Thee art not well thyself?"
"He says he's our man, Bildad," said Peleg, "he wants to ship." "Dost thee?" said Bildad, in a hollow tone
"What does thee want, father?" said Rachel.
Etimologia
From Middle English þe, from Old English þē (“thee”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative þec), from Proto-Germanic *þiz (“thee”), from Proto-Indo-European *te (“second-person singular pronoun”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian die (“thee”), West Frisian dy (“thee”), German Low German di (“thee”), German dir (“thee”, dative pron.), Icelandic þér (“thee”). More at thou.
verbo
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To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
What! doſt thou not believe that God's Thouing and theeing was and is ſound Speech? [...] And theeing & Thouing of one ſingle Perſon was the language of Chriſt Jeſus, and the Holy Prophets and Apoſtles both under the Diſpenſations of Law and Goſpel, [...]
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To use the word thee.
The hardcore role-players will wake up one day feeling, like a dead weight on their chest, the strain of endless texting in Renaissance Faire English—yet dutifully go on theeing and thouing all the same.
You want to hear the word of God, and be challenged to go out and change the world. Instead, you are, for the fifth Sunday in a row, mewling on about purple-headed mountains (which is a bit of an imaginative stretch, since you live in East Anglia) and "theeing" and "thouing" all over the place.
verbo
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obsoletoTo thrive; prosper.
Well mote thee, as well can wish your thought.
Etimologia
From Middle English theen (“to increase, prosper, flourish”), from Old English þēon (“to thrive, prosper, flourish, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *þinhaną (“to thrive, succeed”), from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to succeed, turn out well”). Cognate with Dutch gedijen (“to flourish, thrive, prosper, succeed”), German gedeihen (“to thrive”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌽 (gaþeihan, “to increase, thrive”).
sostantivo
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The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.
Etimologia
From Pitman zee, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents.
articolo
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Variante di theraroAlternative spelling of the.
Etimologia
Respelling of the popularized by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.
Forme
- plurale
- thees
- passato
- theed
- participio passato
- theed
- participio presente
- theeing
- 3ª persona singolare
- thees
thee · To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.
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