yee

See also: Appendix:Variations of "yee"

Translingual

Symbol

yee

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Yimas.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yimas terms

English

Alternative forms

• ye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jiː/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

yee (personal pronoun)

1. (Geordie, otherwise archaic) You (the people being addressed); alternative spelling of ye.
2. (emphatic) Obsolete form of ye.
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     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, especially Internet slang) yes, yeah

See also

• yee-foo
• yee-fu

Anagrams

• Eye, eye

Luganda

Adverb

yee

1. yes

   — Okoze emirimu gyo?
   — Yee.

   — Have you finished your work?
   — Yes.

   — Osobola okujja ewa yange enkya?
   — Yee, ŋŋenda kujja.

   — Will you come to my place tomorrow?
   — Yes, I’ll come.

Antonyms

• aaa

References

• J. D., Chesswas (1967), The Essentials of Luganda, 4th edition, Nairobi: Oxford University Press, page 152

Middle English

Pronoun

yee

1. alternative form of ye (“you”)

Murui Huitoto

Etymology

Cognate with Minica Huitoto yee and Nüpode Huitoto yee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː]
• Hyphenation: yee

Root

yee

1. kingfisher

Derived terms

• yeedo

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017), A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 89

Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jèː/

Postposition

yee

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

Tlingit

Pronoun

yee

1. Second-person plural possessive pronoun.

Yola

Alternative forms

• yea

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɛː/

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

• IPA^(key): /jéè/

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.