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thee(1) (iou)



thee pers. pronoun, 2 sing. objective (accus. & dat.), & noun. .
[Old English (i) accus. Tec, Teh, (later) Te = Old Frisian thi, Old Saxon Tic, Ti, Old High German dih (German dich), Old Norse Tik, Gothic Tuk, (ii) dat Te = Old Frisian thi, Old Saxon Ti, Old & mod. High German dir, Old Norse Ter, Gothic Tus, both from Germanic from Indo-European (base of accus. also repr. by Latin te, Greek se, (Doric) te). Cf. THOU pers. pronoun & noun2.]
A. pronoun.
Objective (direct & indirect) of THOU pers. pronoun: the person addressed by the speaker or writer, you. OE.
Shelley Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Tennyson I have loved thee long. T. Hardy We've been out waiting to meet thee!
b. Yourself. OE.
Shakespeare Richard III Hie thee to hell..Thou cacodemon.
Subjective: = THOU pers. pronoun 1. Also with verb in 3rd person sing. (Formerly esp. in use in the Society of Friends.) Now rare. ME.
B. Russell What thee says about our marriage is very generous.
b. noun.
A self; a person identical with the person addressed by the speaker or writer. L16.
The pronoun 'thee' as a word. Freq. in thees and thous. L17.
? See note s.v. THOU pers. pronoun & noun2.