ty

ty

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tahitian.

ty

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of TY.

• Y. T., YT, yt, Y.T.

• IPA^(key): [tə̟i̯]

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ty (plural tye)

1. (poetic, literary) tide

   Synonym: gety

• tyhawe

From Proto-Albanian *tuu̯an, from earlier *tuu̯ān, from earlier *tuu̯ām, from Proto-Indo-European *tuu̯ēm (*twé, accusative of *túh₂ (“you”)). Compare Latin te.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ty/

ty

1. (personal) accusative of ti, you (singular)

• ti
• teje
• të

• te (Standard Cornish)

ty

1. you (informal second person singular pronoun)
2. thou
3. thee

Inherited from Old Czech ty, from Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɪ]

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ty

1. (personal) you, thou (second person singular)

   Kdybych byl tebou, udělal bych to samé. ― If I were you, I would do the same.

ty

1. inflection of ten:
   1. animate masculine accusative plural
   2. inanimate masculine nominative/accusative plural
   3. feminine nominative/accusative plural

• “ty”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “ty”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “ty”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

From Old Norse þýða (“to make friends”), Proto-Germanic *þiudijaną, cognate with Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þiuþjan, “to bless”). It may originally be the same verb as *þiudijaną (“to interpret”), which is the source of Old Norse þýða (whence Danish tyde) and German deuten.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtˢyˀ]

ty (imperative ty, present tyr or tyer, past tense tyede, past participle tyet)

1. to turn to, resort to

ty

1. ancient

• ty đanh

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ty

1. urine

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): [ˈc]
• (letter name): IPA^(key): [ˈceː]

ty (lower case, upper case Ty)

1. The thirty-third letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called tyé and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) betű; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Cs cs, D d, Dz dz, Dzs dzs, E e, É é, F f, G g, Gy gy, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, Ly ly, M m, N n, Ny ny, O o, Ó ó, Ö ö, Ő ő, P p, R r, S s, Sz sz, T t, Ty ty, U u, Ú ú, Ü ü, Ű ű, V v, Z z, Zs zs. Only in the extended alphabet: Q q W w X x Y y. Commonly used: ch. Also defined: à ë. In surnames (selection): ä aa cz ds eé eö ew oe oó th ts ÿ.

• ty in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

• IPA^(key): [tɨ]

ty sg

1. you (singular, informal)

ty

1. Alternative form of teye (“chest, enclosure”)

ty

1. (chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of þi (“thy”)

From Old Norse þýða.^[1]

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tytt/tydd, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)

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From Old Norse týja.^[1]

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tytt/tydd, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)

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From Old Norse tygi (“tool”).

ty n (definite singular tyet, indefinite plural ty, definite plural tya or tyi)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of tøy

• yt

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈtɨ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈti/

ty (second person)

1. (personal) second person singular; you

• Czech: ty

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “ty”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ty. First attested in the 13th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /tɨ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /tɨ/

ty

1. singular non-formal second person pronoun thou, you

• Polish: ty
• Silesian: ty

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “ty”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tɨ (“liquid, urine”), from Proto-Tupian *tˀɨ (“liquid, urine”). Doublet of y.^[1][2]

Cognate with Sateré-Mawé hɨ (“river”), Guaraní ty (“urine”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Hyphenation: ty

ty (possessable)

1. urine

ty

1. absolute of y
2. R2 of y

ty

1. R2 of y

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ty”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 485, column 1

Inherited from Old Polish ty.

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• Rhymes: -ɘ
• Syllabification: ty
• Homophone: -ty

ty

1. you (second person singular pronoun)

Ty is the T-form; it is used to address friends, family, children, teenagers, and often peers. The V-forms are pan m and pani f.

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ty is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 2 times in essays, 250 times in fiction, and 1034 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1292 times, making it the 31st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

• ty in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ty in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “TY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2019 September 4
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 181

Inherited from Old Polish ty.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɪ
• Syllabification: ty

ty

1. you singular second person pronoun

• ty in silling.org

Inherited from Old Slovak ty, from Proto-Slavic *ty.

• IPA^(key): [ti]

ty

1. you
2. thou

• “ty”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

From Old Swedish þy, from Old Norse því.

• IPA^(key): /tyː/

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ty

1. (archaic, poetic, biblical) for (because)

   Synonyms: därför att, eftersom, emedan, för

   ty riket är ditt ― for the kingdom is yours

ty as well as för always introduces a main clause, while the other given synonyms all introduces secondary clauses. Compare:

• Hon gick inte och lade sig, ty/för hon var inte trött.
• Hon gick inte och lade sig, därför att/eftersom/emedan hon inte var trött.

ty (present tyr, preterite tydde, supine tytt, imperative ty)

1. to cling to, to turn to [someone/something] for protection or comfort.

   När barn blir rädda tyr de sig oftast till sina föräldrar

   When children get scared, they usually turn to their parents for comfort.

• ty in Svensk ordbok.

From Proto-Northern Jê *ˀcy (“seed”) < Proto-Cerrado *cym (“seed”) < Proto-Jê *cym (“seed”).

• IPA^(key): /t̪ɨ/

ty

1. seed

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

ty

1. you, thou

• IPA^(key): /tʲ/

ty (upper case Ty)

1. A digraph in Xhosa orthography.

Perhaps cognate with English tea (“a cup or glass of any of these drinks”).

• IPA^(key): /tiː/

ty

1. drink
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Ty o' letch.

     A drink of small beer.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 73