ty

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ty"

Translingual

Symbol

ty

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Tahitian.

English

Interjection

ty

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of TY.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tə̟i̯]
  • (file)

Noun

ty (plural tye)

  1. (poetic, literary) tide
    Synonym: gety

Derived terms

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tuu̯an, from earlier *tuu̯ān, from earlier *tuu̯ām, from Proto-Indo-European *tuu̯ēm (*twé, accusative of *túh₂ (you)). Compare Latin te.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ty/

Pronoun

ty

  1. (personal) accusative of ti, you (singular)

References

  1. Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 216

Cornish

Alternative forms

Pronoun

ty

  1. you (informal second person singular pronoun)
  2. thou
  3. thee

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech ty, from Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɪ]
  • (file)

Pronoun

ty

  1. (personal) you, thou (second person singular)
    Kdybych byl tebou, udělal bych to samé.If I were you, I would do the same.

Declension

Derived terms

Pronoun

ty

  1. inflection of ten:
    1. animate masculine accusative plural
    2. inanimate masculine nominative/accusative plural
    3. feminine nominative/accusative plural

Further reading

  • ty in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • ty in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • ty in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þýða (to make friends), Proto-Germanic *þiudijaną, cognate with Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (þiuþjan, to bless). It may originally be the same verb as *þiudijaną (to interpret), which is the source of Old Norse þýða (whence Danish tyde) and German deuten.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtˢyˀ]

Verb

ty (imperative ty, present tyr or tyer, past tense tyede, past participle tyet)

  1. to turn to, resort to

Eastern Katu

Adjective

ty

  1. ancient

Derived terms

Guaraní

Noun

ty

  1. urine

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈc]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈceː]

Letter

ty (lower case, upper case Ty)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called tyé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative ty ty-k
accusative ty-t ty-ket
dative ty-nek ty-knek
instrumental ty-vel ty-kkel
causal-final ty-ért ty-kért
translative ty-vé ty-kké
terminative ty-ig ty-kig
essive-formal ty-ként ty-kként
essive-modal
inessive ty-ben ty-kben
superessive ty-n ty-ken
adessive ty-nél ty-knél
illative ty-be ty-kbe
sublative ty-re ty-kre
allative ty-hez ty-khez
elative ty-ből ty-kből
delative ty-ről ty-kről
ablative ty-től ty-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
ty-é ty-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
ty-éi ty-kéi
Possessive forms of ty
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. ty-m ty-im
2nd person sing. ty-d ty-id
3rd person sing. ty-je ty-i
1st person plural ty-nk ty-ink
2nd person plural ty-tek ty-itek
3rd person plural ty-jük ty-ik

See also

Further reading

  • ty in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tɨ]

Pronoun

ty sg

  1. you (singular, informal)

Declension

Middle English

Noun

ty

  1. Alternative form of teye (chest, enclosure)

Determiner

ty

  1. (chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of þi (thy)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þýða.[1]

Verb

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tytt/tydd, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)

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Etymology 2

From Old Norse týja.[1]

Verb

ty (present tense tyr, past tense tydde, past participle tytt/tydd, passive infinitive tyast, present participle tyande, imperative ty)

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Etymology 3

From Old Norse tygi (tool).

Noun

ty n (definite singular tyet, indefinite plural ty, definite plural tya or tyi)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of tøy

References

  1. “ty” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈtɨ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈti/

Pronoun

ty (second person)

  1. (personal) second person singular; you

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: ty

References

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ty. First attested in the 13th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /tɨ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /tɨ/

Pronoun

ty

  1. singular non-formal second person pronoun thou, you

Declension

Descendants

  • Masurian: ti
  • Polish: ty
  • Silesian: ty

References

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani * (liquid, urine), from Proto-Tupian *tˀɨ (liquid, urine). Doublet of y.[1][2]

Cognate with Sateré-Mawé (river), Guaraní ty (urine).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɨ/
  • Rhymes:
  • Hyphenation: ty

Noun

ty (possessable)

  1. urine

Noun

ty

  1. absolute of y
  2. R2 of y

Adjective

ty

  1. R2 of y

References

  1. Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, pages 403–404
  2. Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ty.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈtɨ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes:
  • Syllabification: ty

Pronoun

ty

  1. you (second person singular pronoun)

Usage notes

  • Ty is the T-form; it is used to address friends, family, children, teenagers, and often peers. The V-forms are pan m and pani f.

Declension

See also

  • Appendix:Polish pronouns

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), ty is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 6 times in scientific texts, 0 times in news, 2 times in essays, 250 times in fiction, and 1034 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1292 times, making it the 31st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

  1. Ida Kurcz (1990) “ty”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 617

Further reading

  • ty in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ty in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • TY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2019 September 4
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “ty”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 181

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish ty.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɨ/
  • Rhymes:
  • Syllabification: ty

Pronoun

ty

  1. you singular second person pronoun

Declension

Further reading

  • ty in silling.org

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Old Slovak ty, from Proto-Slavic *ty.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ty

  1. you (personal, singular)

Declension

Further reading

  • ty”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish þy, from Old Norse því.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tyː/
  • (file)

Conjunction

ty

  1. (archaic, poetic, biblical) for (because)
    Synonyms: därför att, eftersom, emedan, för
    Ty riket är dittFor the kingdom is yours

Usage notes

ty as well as för always introduces a main clause, while the other given synonyms all introduces secondary clauses. Compare:

  • Hon gick inte och lade sig, ty/för hon var inte trött.
  • Hon gick inte och lade sig, därför att/eftersom/emedan hon inte var trött.

Verb

ty (present tyr, preterite tydde, supine tytt, imperative ty)

  1. to cling to, to turn to [someone/something] for protection or comfort.
    När barn blir rädda tyr de sig oftast till sina föräldrar
    When children get scared, they usually turn to their parents for comfort.

Conjugation

Further reading

Tapayuna

Etymology

From Proto-Northern Jê *ˀcy (seed) < Proto-Cerrado *cym (seed) < Proto-Jê *cym (seed).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪ɨ/

Noun

ty

  1. seed

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ty, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tūˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronoun

ty

  1. you, thou

Declension

Xhosa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʲ/

Letter

ty (upper case Ty)

  1. A digraph in Xhosa orthography.

Yola

Etymology

Perhaps cognate with English tea (a cup or glass of any of these drinks).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiː/

Noun

ty

  1. drink
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Ty o' letch.
      A drink of small beer.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 73
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