"yus" meaning in English

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Adverb

Etymology: Dialectal form of yes. Head templates: {{head|en|adverb}} yus
  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of yes. Tags: alt-of, alternative, dialectal Alternative form of: yes
    Sense id: en-yus-en-adv-7R4XagnV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: yuses [plural]
Etymology: Russian юс (jus), from Old Church Slavonic ѫсъ (ǫsŭ, “big yus”) Etymology templates: {{uder|en|ru|юс}} Russian юс (jus), {{uder|en|cu|ѫсъ||big yus}} Old Church Slavonic ѫсъ (ǫsŭ, “big yus”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} yus (plural yuses)
  1. Either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet. Categories (topical): Cyrillic letter names Synonyms: jus Translations (name of the old Cyrillic letter): юс (jus) [masculine] (Belarusian), юс (jus) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ѫсъ (ǫsŭ) [Cyrillic, masculine] (Church Slavic), ѧсъ (ęsŭ) (english: little yus) [Cyrillic, masculine] (Church Slavic), jus [masculine] (Czech), Jus [neuter] (German), јус (jus) [masculine] (Macedonian), jus [masculine] (Polish), ius [neuter] (Romanian), юс (jus) [masculine] (Russian), јус [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), jus [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), jus [masculine] (Slovak), jus [masculine] (Slovene), юс (jus) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Etymology: See yu. Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} yus
  1. plural of yu Tags: form-of, plural Form of: yu
    Sense id: en-yus-en-noun-tuzzvvY3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for yus meaning in English (5.7kB)

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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 2025-01-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (0c0c1f1 and 4230888). 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.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.