yox

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English

Verb

yox (third-person singular simple present yoxes, present participle yoxing, simple past and past participle yoxed)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of yex (“hiccup”)
    • 1933, Medical Life, volume 40, page 544:
      Yoxing (or hiccoughing) is the sound in the nose of violent moving of the stomach and comes of a crampy disposition of the stomach with two principal causes

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yōk (“there is not”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰸 (yok), Turkish yok etc.

Pronunciation

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Predicative

yox

  1. antonym of var (“there is, there are, there exists, there exist”): there is no, there are no, there does not exist, there do not exist
  2. antonym of var (“to have”): to not have
    Ayağı yoxdur, qaçır; qanadı yoxdur, uçur.
    It has no legs/feet, it runs; it has no wings, it flies (a traditional riddle).
    Deyəcək bir sözün yoxundursa, get.
    If you don't have anything to say, then leave.

Synonyms

Particle

yox

  1. (colloquial) no
    Antonym: hə
    Cavab ver işimizi bilək, hə yoxsa yox?
    Give an answer so we know, yes or no?

See also

References

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jōk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

Tzotzil

Adjective

yox

  1. green

Derived terms

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