yee
See also: yêe, yééʼ, and yę́ę
English
Alternative forms
- ye
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jiː/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -iː
Pronoun
yee (personal pronoun)
- (archaic and Tyneside) you (the people being addressed); Alternative spelling of ye
- obsolete emphatic of ye
- 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- 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.
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Interjection
yee
- (slang) yes
Anagrams
- Eye, eye
Luganda
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Adverb
yee
- yes
Antonyms
- aaa
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
Alternative forms
- yea
Etymology
From Middle English ye, from Old English gēa, from Proto-West Germanic *jā.
Adverb
yee
- yes, yea
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 80
Yoruba
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jéè/
Interjection
yéè!
- ouch; An expression of pain.
- Yéè! Ó dùn mí!
- Ouch! It hurt me!
- ouch; An expression in sympathy at another's pain.