ye

Meanings

Pronoun

• You (the people being addressed).
• You, refers to one person addressed.

Verb

• address a single person by the use of the pronoun ye instead of thou.

Interjection

• yes, yeah.

Noun

• The Cyrillic Russian letter Е, е.

Origin

• From Middle English ye, ȝe, from Old English ġē, the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, a North-West variant of Proto-Germanic *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yūs, *yū́, plural of *túh₂. Cognate with Scots ye, Saterland Frisian jie, Dutch gij, jij, je, Low German ji, jie, German ihr, Danish and Swedish I, Icelandic ér. See also you.
• From Middle English þe. Early press typographies lacked the letter þ, for which the letter y was substituted due to their resemblance in blackletter hand (etymological y was for a while distinguished by a dot, ẏ). Short form yͤ continued long after the digraph th had replaced þ elsewhere.
• Shortened from yes or yeah.
• From Russian е.