thy

«thy» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: your — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

your

part of speech

determiner, possessive form, one person

meaning for a pupil

Belonging to you. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used in everyday speech; today we say your.

examples

• I wait for Thy salvation, O Lord. (Torah GEN.49.18, JPS 1917) tree →
• "In thy wife's head," says she. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• And they shall hearken to thy voice. (Torah EXO.3.18, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

manual 3; corpora 2091 (Torah 1334, tales 741, Sefer Yetzirah 16); EWT 3; ratio 33.8 (Torah alone 444.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the LORD said unto Cain: 'Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
• And He said: 'What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto Me from the ground.
• And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
• 'Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
• for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «thy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.