Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Used as a modifier before a noun.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to thee: possessive of the pronoun thou, second person singular. It is used in solemn and grave style. See thine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • pronoun Of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in the predicate. See thine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • pronoun archaic That belongs to thee; the possessive form of thou.
  • pronoun archaic or literary your (informal); that belongs to you (singular).
  • conjunction obsolete because.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, variant of thin, thine, from Old English thīn; see tu- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Middle English thy "because, forwhy", shortened form of for-thy, forthy ("for that"), from Old English for þȳ [þe] ("because [that]") from for (instrumental preposition) + þȳ ("by that"), instrumental case of þæt. More at the, that.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English thi, thy ("thy"), apocopated form of thin, thyn, thine ("thy", also "thine"), from Old English þīn ("thy, thine"), from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz. More at thou.

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