yhe

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

yhe

eye (organ of vision)
- 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales‎, Prologue:
  And smale fowles maken melodie / That slepen al the night with open yhe
  (please add an English translation of this quote)

Etymology 2

From Old English þē (“you, thee”), accusative and dative form of þū.

Pronoun

yhe

(chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of þe

References

“the, (pron.2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 May 2018.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

yhe

Alternative form of ye

References

“ye, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 16 May 2018.

Etymology 4

Pronoun

yhe

Alternative form of heo

References

“he, pron. (3)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

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