"aya" meaning in English

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          "word": "ayah"
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        "Alternative form of ayah"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1938, Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts, Coward-McCann and Samuel French, published 1965, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, David McCullough, John Adams, Simon & Schuster, published 2001, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”",
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        "Yes; yea; aye."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, dialect, New England) Yes; yea; aye."
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  "word": "aya"
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        "Alternative form of ayah"
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "New England English"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts, Coward-McCann and Samuel French, published 1965, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, David McCullough, John Adams, Simon & Schuster, published 2001, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”",
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        "(archaic, dialect, New England) Yes; yea; aye."
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