HELP ,HELP , HELP!!!

[Lady Freedom]

I need the correct spelling for the old english word meaning "you"!!:shrug: :dunce:
Is it "Yea","yae", or "Ye"?

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Ye ?

:hi:

[dave29]

3. that sure is an olde spelling

n/t

[Kire]

4. not thou?

[tjwmason]

7. Ye/you and thee/thou

were both used, but used diferently, in a very similar manner to the use of tu and vous in French (for example).

[swag]

2. Will gotcha by the Shortz?

[tjwmason]

5. Technically no such thing.

Spelling rules only came into play following the development of dictionaries, which themselves followed the development of printing - by definition this excludes Old English.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. killjoy.

:P

[tjwmason]

8. I know - but most of the time it works the other way

If a spelling Nazi jumps up and down, one can hurl it at them.

[dsewell]

9. Here goes.

Singular form ("thou"): þu

Plural form ("you"): eow

The first character in the "thou" form should look like a letter 'p' with an extension. It's an Anglo-Saxon character called "thorn" that was pronounced like "th".

Those are the forms that would have been commonly used around 900 AD. The "you" form was not yet used as a polite singular at that time.

[Lady Freedom]

10. So in a sentence like this..

"Ye Be Most Welcome!". It would be spelled right?