From Middle English þe, from Old English þē, from Proto-Germanic *þiz, from Proto-Indo-European *te.

• enPR: thē, IPA: /ðiː/

1. (now, chiefly, archaic, literary) Objective and reflexive case of thou. [from 8th c.]
2. (now, chiefly, archaic, dialect) Thou. [from 12th c.]
   • 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, “The Ship”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC ↗, page 84 ↗:

     "He says he's our man, Bildad," said Peleg, "he wants to ship."
     "Dost thee?" said Bildad, in a hollow tone

• French: (informal and addressing one person; used after a preposition) toi, (informal and addressing one person; used before a verb) te
• German: dich, dir
• Italian: (informal and addressing one person; used after a preposition) te, (informal and addressing one person; used before a verb) ti
• Portuguese: tu, ti
• Russian: тебя
• Spanish: te, ti

thee (thees, present participle theeing; simple past and past participle theed)

1. (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun thee.

   Synonyms: thou

2. (intransitive) To use the word thee.

   Synonyms: thou

From Middle English theen, from Old English þēon, from Proto-Germanic *þinhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *tenk-.

• enPR: thē, IPA: /θiː/

thee (thees, present participle theeing; simple past and past participle theed)

1. (intransitive, UK, obsolete) To thrive; prosper.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 33:

     Well mote thee, as well can wish your thought.

From Pitman zee, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents.

thee (plural thees)

1. The letter ⟨(⟩, which stands for the th sound /ð/ in Pitman shorthand.

• ith
• eth, the name of the IPA letter for this sound

Respelling of the popularized by Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.

1. (very, rare, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of the