yeo

• (UK) IPA^(key): /jəʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophone: yo

From Middle English ea, eo, from Old English ēa (“running water, water, stream, river”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahu, from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Doublet of aqua. Compare ea, Eau, eau.

yeo (plural yeos)

1. (Southwest England) Alternative form of ea.

yeo (plural yeos)

1. Alternative form of yowe.

• rhyne

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “yeo”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• EOY, yoe