þeiの英語

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中期英語

語源 1

Borrowed from Old Norse þeir.

別の表記

thei, þey, þeie, þeye, þeiȝ, þeyȝ, þeih, þeyh, þhei, þhey, þai, þay, þeȝ, þe, þee, þi, þie, þy, þye, ai, ay, yei, yey, yai, yay, þeȝȝ; þæȝe (Early Middle English)
tai, tay, dei, dey, dai, day (after t or d); tei, tey, teȝȝ (Early Middle English)

発音

IPA: /θæi̯/, /ðæi̯/
韻: -æi̯

代名詞

þei (accusative þem, genitive þeires, þeiren, possessive determiner þeir)

Third-person plural pronoun: they
- c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 25, recto, lines 1414-1415; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne‎, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 52:
  
  but algate alyſaundꝛine · atte wille hem ſerued / þat non knew here · cunseile but þei þre one
  
  But Alexandrine would always help them whenever they wanted, so nobody would know their secret except for the three of them.
(rare) Third-person singular pronoun: they
- c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 36, recto, lines 2177-2179; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne‎, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 74:
  
  þan haſtely hiȝed eche wiȝt · on hoꝛſe ⁊ on fote / huntyng wiȝt houndes · alle heie wodes / til þei neyȝyed ſo neiȝh · to nymphe þe ſ oþe
  
  Then each man went quickly, hunting with hounds amongst tall trees, on horse and on foot, until he came close enough to notice the truth.
(demonstrative) those

派生した語

English: they
Scots: thay
Yola: thye, thaye, thaay, thaaye, a

参考

Middle English personal pronouns
			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive	possessive
singular	1st person		I, ich, ik	me		min mi	min
	2nd person		þou	þe		þin þi	þin
	3rd person	m	he	him hine	him	his	his hisen
		f	sche, heo	hire heo	hire		hire hires, hiren
		n	hit		hit him	his, hit	—
dual	1st person		wit	unk		unker
dual	2nd person		ȝit	inc		inker
plural	1st person		we	us, ous		oure	oure oures, ouren
	2nd person		ye	yow		your	your youres, youren
	3rd person	inh.	he	hem he	hem	here	here heres, heren
	3rd person	bor.	þei	þem, þeim		þeir	þeir þeires, þeiren

Used preconsonantally or before h.
Early or dialectal.
Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

参照

^ Brink, Daniel (1992), “Variation between <þ-> and in the Ormulum”, in Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr and Robert L. Kyes, editors, On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; 68), De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 21-35 .
^ Thurber, Beverly A. (15 February 2011), “Voicing of Initial Interdental Fricatives in Early Middle English Function Words”, in Journal of Germanic Linguistics, volume 23, number 1, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, pages 65-81.
^ “thei, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

限定詞

þei

alternative form of þi (“thy”)

語源 3

代名詞

þei

(Northern) alternative form of þe (“thee”)

語源 4

名詞

þei (plural þeies)

alternative form of þigh (“thigh”)

語源 5

副詞

þei

(Early Middle English) alternative form of þouȝ (“though”)

接続詞

þei

(Early Middle English) alternative form of þouȝ (“though”)

語源 6

数詞

þei

alternative form of tweyn (“two”)

[1] Brink, Daniel (1992), “Variation between <þ-> and in the Ormulum”, in Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr and Robert L. Kyes, editors, On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; 68), De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 21-35 .

[2] Thurber, Beverly A. (15 February 2011), “Voicing of Initial Interdental Fricatives in Early Middle English Function Words”, in Journal of Germanic Linguistics, volume 23, number 1, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, pages 65-81.

[3] “thei, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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