yee

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English

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Pronoun

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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.

Interjection

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yee

  1. (slang) yes

Anagrams

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Luganda

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Adverb

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yee

  1. yes

Antonyms

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References

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The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 152.

Middle English

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Pronoun

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yee

  1. Alternative form of ye (you)
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Postposition

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yee

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

Tlingit

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Pronoun

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yee

  1. Second-person plural possessive pronoun.

Yola

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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yee

  1. yes, yea

References

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  • 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

Yoruba

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Interjection

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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.