yo

yo

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /jəʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• (US) IPA^(key): /joʊ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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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”); 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.

Modern 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.

yo

1. (slang) A greeting similar to hi.

   Synonyms: oi, wotcher

   Yo Paulie! How's it going?

2. (slang) An interjection similar to hey.

   Synonyms: ahoy, oi; see also Thesaurus:hey

   Yo, check this out!

   Check this out, yo!

3. (slang) An expression of surprise or excitement.

   Yo, that's crazy, but I don't remember asking.

   • 2021 October 2, Mason Cannon, “Don't Feel Pressured To Declare Your Major Right Away”, in Study Breaks‎^[2]:

     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.

4. (military slang) Present! Here!

   Sergeant: Smith?
   Private Smith: Yo!

5. (chiefly African-American Vernacular) Emphatic conclusion to a statement.
   • 2010, "Kafkaesque" (Breaking Bad TV series, season 3, episode 9)

     JESSE: That is messed up, yo.

• (greeting): hey, hi; see also Category:English greetings
• (interjection): hey

• yo-ho
• yo-ho-ho

From you're, your, etc.

• yo'

yo

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of your.

   Yo sandwich has only bacon in it. Want some ketchup on that?

• yo momma

yo

1. (Baltimore) third-person singular, familiar

   Yo was tuckin' in his shirt! (Stotko and Troyer 2007)

yo

1. Abbreviation of year(s) old; also y.o., y/o.
2. (crochet) Initialism of yarn over.

From Russian ё (jo).

• IPA^(key): /jɒ/

yo (plural yos)

1. The letter Ё, ё.

• yoficator

yo

1. Short for yoleven.

From irregular romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠 (yuè).

yo (plural yo or yos)

1. Obsolete form of yue, a traditional Chinese unit of volume.

yo (plural yos)

1. (knitting) Alternative form of YO:
   1. Abbreviation of yarnover.

yo (third-person singular simple present yos, present participle yoing, simple past and past participle yoed)

1. (knitting) Alternative form of YO:
   1. Abbreviation of yarnover.

• oy

Cognate with Saho yoo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjo/ [ˈjɔ]

yó

1. I, me

• The form yóo is used when the pronoun isn't followed by a clitic.

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “yo”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

yo m sg or f sg

1. First-person singular nominative pronoun; I

• “yo”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

yo

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

Inherited from Spanish yo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝo/, [ˈʝ͡ʝo]

yo

1. I (1st person nominative pronoun)

From English yo.

yo

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) outgoing; sociable

yo (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang)

1. to act in an outgoing manner
2. to socialize with; to interact with
3. (euphemistic) Used in certain interjections to replace vulgar verbs.

Borrowed from English yo.

yo

1. (slang) yo
   • 2016, Lisbeth Zornig, Mikael Lindholm, Bundfald, Art People, →ISBN:

     “Yo!” Mathias så op.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Borrowed from English yo.

• IPA^(key): /joː/
• Hyphenation: yo
• Rhymes: -oː

yo

1. (slang) yo (informal greeting, interjection similar to hey)

yo

1. with

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /jo/

yo pl

1. the

This word is only used in its article sense when it modifies a plural noun.

• a
• an
• la
• lan
• nan
• sa a (emphatic value)
• yon (indef. art.)

yo (contracted form y)

1. they
2. them

• IPA^(key): /jɔ/

From ayo.

yo

1. Short for ayo.

Borrowed from English yo.

yo

1. (slang) yo (greeting, interjection similar to hey)

yo

1. The hiragana syllable よ (yo) or the katakana syllable ヨ (yo) in Hepburn romanization.

yo

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)^[1]

Kristang personal pronouns (edit)
Person	Singular	Plural
First	yo	nus
Second	bos	bolotu
Third	eli	olotu

From Old Spanish yo, from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

• IPA^(key): /jo/, /jɔ/

yo (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ייו)

1. I

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *hja, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hja. Cognates include Jingpho yi.

• IPA^(key): /jo˧/, [ju˧˩]

yo

1. field
2. farm

• IPA^(key): /jo˧/

yo

1. peace

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese [Term?], from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ja. Cognates include Jingpho kăya.

• IPA^(key): /joː˧/, [jɔ˧˨]

yo

1. itch

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎^[3], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), pages 15-16

yo

1. Alternative form of yɔ̂

yo

1. sky

• James Kari, Lower Tanana Athabaskan Listening and Writing Exercises (1991)

yo (yo⁵／yo⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄧㄛ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 喲／哟
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚛／𪠸, 𪠸

yo

1. Nonstandard spelling of yō.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

yo

1. Alternative form of yow

yo

1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

yo (plural yɔ́)

1. snake

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

• iâo (continental Normandy)
• iaoue (Guernsey)
• ieau (Jersey)

From Old French yaue, ewe, euwe, egua (“water”), from Latin aqua (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”).

yo f (plural yos)

1. (Sark) water

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

yo

1. I

• Ladino: yo/ייו
• Spanish: yo
  • Chavacano: yo

yo

1. masculine nominative singular of ya (“who (relative)”)

From Old Spanish yo, from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: yo

yo

1. first-person singular pronoun in the nominative case; I

• When more pronouns are included in the same sentence, it is considered impolite to say the pronoun yo at first; it must be the last one (this also applies to mí):

  Iremos Rosa, tú y yo. ― Rosa, you and I will go.

yo m (plural yos or yoes)

1. (psychoanalysis) Freud's concept of the ego

• Chavacano: yo

• “yo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tregami cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : yo

From Proto-Nuristani *eka, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háykas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óykos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjo/

yo (Gambir)^[1]

1. one

• yoo

Clipping of yok.

• IPA^(key): /joː/

yo

1. (informal) no
2. (informal) Term of objection, roughly equivalent to nope, nah or naw.

• “yo”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yo¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5343

• IPA^(key): /jo/

yo

1. sentence-final action negation particle; not

   de tifiam yo ― I am not eating

Specifically negates action verbs (intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, etc.). To negate a stative verb, see wayo. The verbs seba/tope (“to want”) are not negated by ua, which would be ungrammatical. Instead, one uses the verb fono (“to not want”).

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics

-yo

1. Combining stem of yona.

yo (plural yoku)

1. path, trail, a path marked by hand-broken branches

• Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎^[5] (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ɟo]

yo

1. (transitive) to leave (someone) without a portion from the hunt

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[6], Lyon

• IPA^(key): /jó/

yó

1. to become saturated with food or drinks; to become full (after eating)
   1. to become drunk
2. to become fleshy or robust (in reference to the belly or body)
3. (idiomatic, euphemistic) to become pregnant

• Àwòyó (“a nickname for the orisha Yemọja”)

-yo

1. Combining stem of yona.