yip

yip

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pholo terms

Possibly from dialectal yip (“to cheep like a bird”), from Middle English ȝyppe, probably imitative.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /jɪp/

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• Rhymes: -ɪp

yip (plural yips)

1. a sharp, high-pitched bark
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.

yip (third-person singular simple present yips, present participle yipping, simple past and past participle yipped)

1. to bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice

• IPY

yip

1. water

• John D. Bengtson, In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory (2008, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yip.

yip

1. thread

   beyaz yip ― white thread

• “yip”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

yip

1. water

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38

• yipek, yipik, yibek, şipik, şipek

From Proto-Turkic *yip.

yip (3rd person possessive yipi, plural yipler)

1. thread

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “yip”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 359
• Dwyer, Arienne M. (2007) “yip”, in Salar: A Study in Inner Asian Language Contact Processes: Part I: Phonology‎^[1], 1st edition, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 215
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “yip”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 278