Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - thou
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Thou
thou
I. pronoun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English thu; akin to Old High German du ~, Latin tu, Greek sy Date: before 12th century archaic the one addressed ~ shalt have no other gods before me — Exodus 20:3(Authorized Version) — used especially in ecclesiastical or literary language and by Friends as the universal form of address to one person; compare thee, thine, thy, ye, you II. transitive verb Date: 15th century to address as ~ III. noun (plural ~) Etymology: short for ~sand Date: 1867 a ~sand of something (as dollars) paid 25 ~ for the car
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1. pron. (obj. thee; poss. thy or thine; pl. ye or you) second person singular pronoun, now replaced by you except in some formal, liturgical, dialect, and poetic uses. Etymology: OE thu f. Gmc 2. n. (pl. same or thous) colloq. 1 a thousand. 2 one thousandth. Etymology: abbr. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. уст. ты thou seest —- ты зришь hearest thou? —- слышишь ли ты? 2. обращаться на "ты" 3. разг. сокр. от ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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Thou is an old-fashioned, poetic, or religious word for ‘you’ when you are talking to only one person. It is used as the subject of a verb. PRON see also holier-than-thou ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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pronoun old use a word meaning you, used as the subject of a sentence (- see also holierthanthou) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 2nd nominative singular personal pronoun, O.E. юu, from P.Gmc. *thu. Superseded in M.E. by plural form you, but retained in certain dialects (e.g. Philadelphia Quakers). Plural form ye is from a different root. A brief history of the second person pronoun in Eng. can be found here. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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