yee

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "yee"

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jiː/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

yee (personal pronoun)

  1. (archaic and Geordie) you (the people being addressed); Alternative spelling of ye
  2. obsolete emphatic of ye
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
      Speak yee who best can tell, ye sons of light,
      Angels, for yee behold him, and with songs
      And choral symphonies, Day without Night,
      Circle his Throne, rejoycing, yee in Heav'n,
      On Earth joyn all yee Creatures to extoll.

Interjection

yee

  1. (slang) yes

Anagrams

Luganda

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Adverb

yee

  1. yes

Antonyms

References

The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 152.

Middle English

Pronoun

yee

  1. Alternative form of ye (“you”)

Navajo

Postposition

yee

  1. with, by means of, by means of it

Tlingit

Pronoun

yee

  1. Second-person plural possessive pronoun.

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English ye, from Old English gēa, from Proto-West Germanic *jā.

Pronunciation

Adverb

yee

  1. yes, yea

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 80

Yoruba

Pronunciation

Interjection

yéè!

  1. ouch; An expression of pain.
    Yéè! Ó dùn mí!
    Ouch! It hurt me!
  2. ouch; An expression in sympathy at another's pain.
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