thou
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thou (t̸ho̵u)
Archaic personal pronoun in the second person singular: once used in familiar address, but now replaced by you except in poetic or religious use and in some British dialects: thee is the objective form, thine the possessive, and thyself the intensive and reflexive; thy is the possessive pronominal adjective
Etymology: ME < OE thu, akin to Ger du < IE *tu > L & Sans tu
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