So, if "ye" was used like contemporary English "the," then did the vowel sound change depending on whether the next word started with a vowel?

Yee Elephant vs. Ya boi, for example.
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@ziphi it was never pronounced "ye", it was always "the"; y was an approximation of þ because printing presses made in continental europe didn't have þ in the selection of type, and by that time þ looked somewhat like y because the loop was angled upwards
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