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English
Pronunciation
Pronoun
yee (personal pronoun)
- (archaic and Geordie) you (the people being addressed); Alternative spelling of ye
- obsolete emphatic of ye
1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →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
- (slang) yes
Anagrams
Luganda
Adverb
yee
- yes
Antonyms
References
The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 152.
Middle English
Pronoun
yee
- Alternative form of ye (“you”)
Navajo
Postposition
yee
- with, by means of, by means of it
Tlingit
Pronoun
yee
- Second-person plural possessive pronoun.
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English ye, from Old English ġēa, from Proto-West Germanic *jā.
Pronunciation
Adverb
yee
- 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!
- ouch; An expression of pain.
Yéè! Ó dùn mí!- Ouch! It hurt me!
- ouch; An expression in sympathy at another's pain.