yee

yee

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Yimas.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Yimas terms

• ye

• IPA^(key): /jiː/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iː

yee (personal pronoun)

1. (archaic and Geordie) you (the people being addressed); Alternative spelling of ye.
2. obsolete emphatic of ye
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     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.

yee

1. (slang) yes

• Eye, eye

yee

1. yes

   — Okoze emirimu gyo?
   — Yee.

   — Have you finished your work?
   — Yes.

   — Osobola okujja ewa yange enkya?
   — Yee, ŋŋenda kujja.

   — Will you come to my place tomorrow?
   — Yes, I’ll come.

• aaa

• J. D., Chesswas (1967) The Essentials of Luganda, 4th edition, Nairobi: Oxford University Press, page 152

yee

1. alternative form of ye (“you”)

Cognate with Minica Huitoto yee and Nüpode Huitoto yee.

• IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː]
• Hyphenation: yee

yee

1. kingfisher

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 89

• IPA^(key): /jèː/

yee

1. with, by means of, by means of it

yee

1. Second-person plural possessive pronoun.

• yea

From Middle English ye, from Old English ġēa, from Proto-West Germanic *jā.

• IPA^(key): /jɛː/

yee

1. yes, yea

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 80

• IPA^(key): /jéè/

yéè!

1. ouch; An expression of pain.

   Yéè! Ó dùn mí!

   Ouch! It hurt me!

2. ouch; An expression in sympathy at another's pain.