- 1你的(古英語用法,中文常譯作「汝的」「爾之」)。聖經、莎士比亞、詩歌與讚美詩裡才會出現,現代口語完全不用。
An old-fashioned word for "your" — the form of "thou" (the old word for "you" when talking to one person). You will not hear this in normal speech today. You meet it in three places: the Bible ("Honour thy father and thy mother"), Shakespeare and other old poetry, and hymns or prayers. There is a small rule that goes with it, the same rule as "a" and "an": "thy" comes before a word starting with a consonant sound (thy book, thy hand), and "thine" comes before a vowel sound (thine eyes, thine own heart). "Thine" also works alone, the way "yours" does: "This book is thine." One thing that surprises people: "thou" and "thy" were once the WARM, close words, used to family, children, close friends, and God — while "you" was the polite, distant word for a stranger or a superior. So when the Bible says "thy," it is not being grand and formal; it is being intimate. English later dropped the whole warm form and kept only the polite one, which is why "thy" now sounds grand to us — exactly backwards from what it meant. Modern writers sometimes use it on purpose to sound ancient or holy, and signs and fantasy games use it for flavour, often getting the grammar wrong.
From the word’s history
From Middle English þi, short form of þin, from Old English þīn; see thou.
源自古英文 þīn「你的」;和 thou「你」同一來源。
組成From Old English þīn, the possessive of þū "thou". "Thy" is a worn-down form of "thine" — the -n dropped off before consonants, the same way "mine" shortened to "my" ("mine own house" → "my house"). Both go back to the very old Indo-European root that also gave Latin tū and German du.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
thyconj詞源 2/ˈðaɪ̯/
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obsoleteOnly used in for thy, for-thy, which is an alternative form of forthy (“because, therefore”).
- For-thy it round and hollow shaped was, Like to the world itselfe, and seem'd aworld of glass.
- Wallace knew well the Englishmen would flee, For thy he thrusted in the thickest to be, Hewing full fast on whomsoever he fought, Against his dint fine steel availed nought.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。