Etymology 1

From , the nominative case of the second person plural personal pronoun. See also .

Pronoun

1. you (the people being addressed).

Usage notes

was originally used only for the nominative case (as the subject), and only for the second person plural. Later, was used as a subject or an object, either singular or plural, which is the way that is used today.

Etymology 2

From . The letter is a variant of , a letter which corresponds to modern . Etymological y was for a time distinguished by a dot, , but the letters conflated when that was dropped. Despite the occasional modern use of in the word, it is still read as .

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   Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe.