thine

From Middle English thyn, þyn, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz. Cognate to German dein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian din, Faroese tín and Icelandic þinn.

• (UK) enPR: thīn, IPA^(key): /ðaɪn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

thine

1. (archaic) Singular second person prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:31:

     Thine oxe shall be slaine before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine asse shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shal not be restored to thee: thy sheepe shall bee giuen vnto thine enemies, and thou shalt haue none to rescue them.

   • 1895, “America the Beautiful”, Katharine Lee Bates (lyrics), Samuel A. Ward (music):

     Thine alabaster cities gleam / Undimmed by human tears!

thine

1. (archaic) Singular second person possessive pronoun; yours
   • 1996, Weird Al Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Amish Paradise”, in Bad Hair Day:

     But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine / Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699

• thee
• thou
• thy
• your
• yours

• thein, Thein, Thien, INTHE, nithe, Neith

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɪnʲə]

thine

1. Lenited form of tine.

thine (subjective pronoun þou)

1. Alternative form of þin (“thy”)

thine (subjective þou)

1. Alternative form of þin (“thine”)