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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • pronoun Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to thee.
  • adjective Used instead of thy before an initial vowel or h.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of thee; the original genitive of the pronoun thou.
  • Of thee; belonging to thee. Compare mine, 2.
  • Belonging or pertaining to thee: in this sense a possessive.
  • Used attributively, with the force of an adjective: commonly preferred before a vowel to thy, and now used only in that situation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • preposition A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • determiner archaic Singular second person prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
  • pronoun archaic Singular second person possessive pronoun.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English thin; see thy.]

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Middle English thyn, þyn, from Old English þīn. Cognate to German dein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian din, Faroese tín and Icelandic þinn.

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