[ye] pron [ME, fr. OE ge; akin to OHG ir you--more at you] (bef. 12c): you 1--used orig. only as a plural pronoun of the second person in the subjective case and now used esp. in ecclesiastical or literary language and in various English dialects
[2]ye definite article [fr. the use of the letter y by printers and scribes of late ME to represent the letter thorn] (1551) archaic: the "Ye Olde Gifte Shoppe"