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"etymology_text": "As a greeting first attested in 1859, attested first as a cry of sailors and huntsmen (first attested in the 1400s; compare e.g. huzzah, giddyup). Originally from Middle English yo, io, ȝo, yeo, yaw, variant forms of ya, ye (“yes, yea”), from Old English ġēa (“yes, yea”), from Proto-Germanic *ja (“yes, thus, so”), from Proto-Indo-European *yē (“already”); or perhaps from Old English ēow (“Wo!, Alas!”, interjection). Compare Danish, Swedish, German, Norwegian jo (“yes (flexible meaning)”), Dutch jow (“hi, hey”) and Dutch jo (“hi, hey”). More at yea, ow, ew.\nModern popularity apparently dates from World War II (claimed to be a common response at roll calls; see definition 4), and then most intensely attested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; it thence spread globally from American dominance of pop culture post-WWII.",
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"text": "Yo, that's crazy, but I don't remember asking.",
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"ref": "2021 October 2, Mason Cannon, “Don't Feel Pressured To Declare Your Major Right Away”, in Study Breaks",
"text": "I have quickly acclimated myself to the standard form of greeting on campus: \"Oh hey what’s your name? … Yeah, nice to meet you, what're you studying? … Yo that’s sick!\" A script to recite, nearly verbatim, 10 times a day or more.",
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"text": "Sergeant: Smith?\nPrivate Smith: Yo!"
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"ref": "2010, \"Kafkaesque\" (Breaking Bad TV series, season 3, episode 9)",
"text": "JESSE: That is messed up, yo."
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"text": "Yo was tuckin' in his shirt! (Stotko and Troyer 2007)"
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"English indeclinable nouns",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English numerals",
"English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
"English terms derived from Chinese",
"English terms derived from Mandarin",
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"English terms with audio links",
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"Rhymes:English/əʊ",
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"word": "yoleven"
}
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],
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"Short for yoleven."
],
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"yoleven",
"yoleven#English"
]
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]
}
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{
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},
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"US"
]
},
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}
{
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"English nouns",
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"English terms borrowed from Mandarin",
"English terms derived from Chinese",
"English terms derived from Mandarin",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English two-letter words",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ",
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"en:Greetings"
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"1": "en",
"2": "cmn",
"3": "-"
},
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"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "zh",
"3": "龠"
},
"expansion": "Chinese 龠 (yuè)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From irregular romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠 (yuè).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "yo",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "yos",
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"plural"
]
}
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],
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"pos": "noun",
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"word": "fro-yo"
},
{
"word": "yo-weight"
},
{
"word": "yo-yo"
}
],
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"extra": "a traditional Chinese unit of volume",
"word": "yue"
}
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"Obsolete form of yue, a traditional Chinese unit of volume."
],
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[
"yue",
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"Chinese",
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"UK"
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{
"ipa": "/joʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
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"audio": "En-au-yo.ogg",
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"tags": [
"Australia"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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