“Ye are men.”
-from an untitled draft of a Kull story
ye1
yē/
pronoun
archaicdialect
pronoun: ye
1. plural form of thou1.
Origin
Old English gē, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gij and German ihr .
ye2
yē,T͟Hē/
determiner
determiner: ye
1. pseudo-archaic term for the.
Origin
graphic variant; in late Middle English þ (see thorn) came to be written identically with y, so that the could be written ye . This spelling (usually ye) was kept as a convenient abbreviation in handwriting until the 19th century, and in printers' types during the 15th and 16th century, but it was never pronounced as “ye.”
A Well of Heroes
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