ye¹ /yē or yi/ (now archaic, dialect or poetic)

1. The second person plural (sometimes singular) pronoun
2. Cf you. Formerly, eg in the Authorized Version of the English Bible, ye was always used as a nominative, and you as a dative or accusative
3. Later ye was sometimes used for all these cases

ye² /thē, thi or (reflecting the spelling) yē/

An archaic spelling for ‘the’, arising from printers' use of y for the letter thorn, . See Y (n)

• clappers
• clapping
• clappings
• clappy-doo
• clappy-doos
• claps
• clap-sill
• clap-sills
• claptrap
• claptrapperies
• claptrappery
• claptraps
• clap up
• claque
• claques
• claqueur
• claqueurs
• clarabella
• clarabellas
• clarain
• clarains
• Clare
• clarence
• clarences
• Clarenceux