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English Dictionary: you	by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
You \You\ ([umac]), pron. [Possess. {Your} ([umac]r) or {Yours} ([umac]rz); dat. & obj. {You}.] [OE. you, eou, eow, dat. & acc., AS. e[a2]w, used as dat. & acc. of ge, g[emac], ye; akin to OFries. iu, io, D. u, G. euch, OHG. iu, dat., iuwih, acc., Icel. y[edh]r, dat. & acc., Goth. izwis; of uncertain origin. [root]189. Cf. {Your}.] The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under {Ye}. Ye go to Canterbury; God you speed. --Chaucer. Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place. --Shak. In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over. --Prior. Note: Though you is properly a plural, it is in all ordinary discourse used also in addressing a single person, yet properly always with a plural verb. [bd]Are you he that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind is so admired ?[b8] --Shak. You and your are sometimes used indefinitely, like we, they, one, to express persons not specified. [bd]The looks at a distance like a new-plowed land; but as you come near it, you see nothing but a long heap of heavy, disjointed clods.[b8] --Addison. [bd]Your medalist and critic are much nearer related than the world imagine.[b8] --Addison. [bd]It is always pleasant to be forced to do what you wish to do, but what, until pressed, you dare not attempt.[b8] --Hook. You is often used reflexively for yourself of yourselves. [bd]Your highness shall repose you at the tower.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thou \Thou\, pron. [Sing.: nom. {Thou}; poss. {Thy}or {Thine}; obj. {Thee}. Pl.: nom. {You}; poss. {Your}or {Yours}; obj. {You}.] [OE. thou, [thorn]u, AS. [edh][umac], [edh]u; akin to OS. & OFries. thu, G., Dan. & Sw. du, Icel. [thorn][umac], Goth. [thorn]u, Russ. tui, Ir. & Gael. tu, W. ti, L. tu, Gr. sy`, Dor. ty`, Skr. tvam. [fb]185. Cf. {Thee}, {Thine}, {Te Deum}.] The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style. Art thou he that should come? --Matt. xi. 3. Note: [bd]In Old English, generally, thou is the language of a lord to a servant, of an equal to an equal, and expresses also companionship, love, permission, defiance, scorn, threatening: whilst ye is the language of a servant to a lord, and of compliment, and further expresses honor, submission, or entreaty.[b8] --Skeat. Note: Thou is now sometimes used by the Friends, or Quakers, in familiar discourse, though most of them corruptly say thee instead of thou.