Either aclipping ofEnglish Yo rubaYoruba Yo rùbá
yo
( international standards ) ISO 639-1 language code forYoruba . 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 Middle English yo ,io ,ȝo ,yeo ,yaw ya ,ye ( “ yes, yea ” ) , fromOld English ġēa ( “ yes, yea ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *ja ( “ yes, thus, so ” ) ; or perhaps fromOld English ēow ( “ Wo!, Alas! ” ,interjection ) . CompareDanish Swedish German Norwegian jo ( “ yes (flexible meaning) ” ) ,Dutch jow ( “ hi, hey ” ) andDutch jo ( “ hi, hey ” ) . More atyea ow ew
Modern popularity apparently dates from the early 20th century in Philadelphia, PA; amongst the Italian Community there, whereio salutatory response among residents, particularly young males. This usage was apparently reinforced by the aforesaid English terms. It has been claimed to have been a common response atroll calls during World War 2 (see definition 4), and then most intensely attested inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania ; it thence spread globally from American dominance of pop culture post-WWII.
yo
( slang ) A greeting similar tohi . Synonyms: oi wotcher Yo Paulie! How's it going?
( slang ) An interjection similar tohey . Synonyms: ahoy oi see also Thesaurus:hey Yo , check this out!
Check this out,yo !
( 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”, inStudy Breaks [3] 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.
( military slang ) Present !Here !Sergeant: Smith?Private Smith: Yo !( 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 similar to hi
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interjection similar to hey
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expression of surprise or excitement
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From anon-rhotic pronunciation ofyour
yo
( colloquial ) Pronunciation spelling ofyour Yo sandwich has only bacon in it. Want some ketchup on that?
Ellipsis of such phrases asyour friend/buddy (over there ),your brother/sister ,your mom/dad , etc., referring to someone, whether present or absent (or male or female), who is related to theinterlocutor in some way. All such forms were then shortened toyour (pronounced[joʊ] ), for swiftness of expression; eventually, the original meaning "your [something]" was lost and broadened to "that person".
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( Baltimore , colloquial ) Generic third-person singular pronoun( primarily used in place ofhe andshe ) .Is dat yo mama? What'syo doin' in here?? ( original sense )
I think I've lost ma pet turtle! You seenyo ?Yo mustn't be far from here... ( current broadened sense )
Yo was tuckin' in his shirt!( Example taken from Stotko and Troyer (2007).[ 1] ) Wha' dey did toyo ?Yo looks nervous!
^ Stotko, Elaine M.; Troyer, Margaret (1 August 2007), “A NEW GENDER-NEUTRAL PRONOUN IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND: A PRELIMINARY STUDY”, inAmerican Speech [1] 82 , number 3,→DOI →ISSN 262–279 yo
Abbreviation ofyear (s) old alsoy.o. y/o ( crochet ) Initialism ofyarn over FromRussian ё ( jo ) .
yo (plural yos
The name of the letterЁ ё Cyrillic alphabets . yo
Clipping ofyoleven From irregular romanization of the standardMandarin Chinese 龠 ( yuè ) .
yo (plural yo or yos
Obsolete form ofyue traditional Chinese unit ofvolume yo (plural yos
( knitting ) Alternative form ofYO :Abbreviation ofyarnover yo (third-person singular simple present yos present participle yoing simple past and past participle yoed
( knitting ) Alternative form ofYO :Abbreviation ofyarnover FromProto-Sino-Tibetan *ja ( “ to itch ” ) .
( Myanmar ) /jɔ˧/ ( Lianghe ) [ʑɑ³¹] ( Longchuan ) [jɔ³¹] ( Luxi ) [ʑa⁵¹] ( Xiandao ) [jɔ³¹] yo
toitch Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005 ),A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon [4] 146-147 Cognate withSaho yoo
yó
I ,me The formyóo E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985 ), “yo”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English) , University of London,→ISBN Inherited fromLate Latin eo Classical Latin egō̆
yo m sg or f sg
First-person singular nominative pronoun ;I Aragonese personal pronouns
The forms shown in the table are the most widespread ones. Some varieties use different forms:nusotros as nusaltros as usté (s) ustet (z) vustet (z) vusotros as vusaltros as ell (s) er (s) era (s) mos en mo' li (s) el l' 'l no ( “ no, not ” ) .es els 's 'ls no ( “ no, not ” ) . The contracted forms are used before verbs beginning with vowel sounds. In Ribagorçan the contracted formto' en “yo ”, inAragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish) Inherited fromLate Latin eo Classical Latin egō̆
yo
I ( first-person singular pronoun ) Inherited fromSpanish yo
yo
I ( 1st person nominative pronoun ) FromEnglish yo
yo
( Hong Kong Cantonese , chiefly university slang ) outgoing ;sociable yo ( Hong Kong Cantonese , chiefly university slang )
toact in anoutgoing manner tosocialize with; tointeract with ( euphemistic ) Used in certain interjections to replace vulgar verbs. Borrowed fromEnglish yo
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( slang ) yo 2016 Bundfald , Art People,→ISBN Borrowed fromEnglish yo
yo
( slang ) yo ( informal greeting, interjection similar to hey ) yo
with FromFrench “eux ”.
yo pl
the This word is only used in its article sense when it modifies a plural noun.
yo (contracted form y
they them Fromayo
yo
apheretic form ofayo Borrowed fromEnglish yo
yo
( slang ) yo greeting, interjection similar to hey )yo
Thehiragana syllableよ ( yo ) or thekatakana syllableヨ ( yo ) inHepburn romanization. IPA (key ) : /ˈjo/ [ˈjo] Hyphenation:yo yo
alternative spelling ofyula alternative spelling ofyuya alternative spelling ofye alternative spelling ofyu yo
I ( first-person singular personal pronoun ) [ 1] ^ 2010 , Ladislav Prištic,Kristang - Crioulo de Base Portuguesa , Masaryk University, page 26.io ( Romania ) ,lyo ( Yugoslavia ) Inherited fromOld Spanish yo ( “ I ” ) , fromLate Latin eo Classical Latin egō̆
yo (Hebrew spelling ייו [ 1]
I ( myself ) [16th c.] (Can wedate this quote?) , Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, edited by Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein,A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi [5] 2012 ,→ISBN page215 :Yo , ke nunka en mis dias ke non sali aver fuego, syendo fui akavidado, ma akea noche fui ovligado de ir a este fuego, non para verlo, otro ke syendo era serka dela kaza de si. Shelomo Fernandes.Myself , never in all my days had I gone out to watch a fire, seeing as how I was warned against that, but that night I was obligated to go after this fire, not to watch it, but [because] it was approaching Mr. Shelomo Fernandes's house.2002 Aki Yerushalayim [6] 68-72 ,page59 :[ …] yo no, ke bien saves ke deske el ombre es muerto, ke no se kuenta salvo por animalia muerta.And don’t say: so and so is handsome andI ’m not; you know well that since the man is dead that he doesn’t count except as a dead animal. 2006 Por el plazer de kontar [7] page142 :[ …] yo empesí a engodrarme … i engodrarme. El prenyado a mí me yakishea muncho.we left to have our honeymoon in Paris, andI started to gain weight … and gain weight. I look so much like I am pregnant. 2008 La ija i la madre komo la unya i la karne [8] →ISBN page69 :Agora soltantoYo no me demando Now letting go, I am[ an ] I wonder not; I sigh, looking above, I am happy, therefore I live… ^ “yo ”, inTrezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language , and English), Instituto Maale Adumim yo
alternative form ofyɔ̂ FromProto-Athabaskan *yaˑ
yo
sky James Kari,Lower Tanana Athabaskan Listening and Writing Exercises (1991) yo (yo5 / yo0 Zhuyin ˙ㄧㄛ )
Hanyu Pinyin reading of喲 / 哟 Hanyu Pinyin reading of嚛 / 𪠸 𪠸 yo
nonstandard spelling ofyō Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.yo
alternative form ofyow yo
alternative form ofheo ( “ she ” ) yo (plural yɔ́
snake FromOld French yaue ,ewe ,euwe ,egua ( “ water ” ) , fromLatin aqua ( “ water ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ ( “ water, flowing water ” ) .
yo f plural yos
( Sark ) water Inherited fromLate Latin eo Classical Latin egō̆
yo
I Alternative scripts
𑀬𑁄 ( Brahmi script ) यो ( Devanagari script ) যো ( Bengali script ) යො ( Sinhalese script ) ယော ယေႃ ( Burmese script ) โย ( Thai script ) ᨿᩮᩣ ( Tai Tham script ) ໂຍ ໂຢ ( Lao script ) យោ ( Khmer script ) 𑄠𑄮 ( Chakma script ) yo
masculine nominative singular ofya ( “ who( relative ) ” ) IPA (key ) : /ˈjo/ Rhymes:-o Syllabification:yo yo
perhaps ,maybe Álvarez, José; Bravo, María (2008 ), “yo”, inDiccionario básico de la lengua añú [Basic dictionary of the Añú language [9] →ISBN 108 FromOld Spanish yo Late Latin eo Classical Latin egō̆
Rhymes:-o Syllabification:yo yo
first-person singular pronoun in the nominative case ;I When more pronouns are included in the same sentence, it is consideredimpolite to say the pronounyo at first; it must be the last one (this also applies tomí Iremos Rosa, tú yyo .Rosa, you andI will go. Spanish personal pronouns
Like other masculine words, masculine pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender. Treated as if it were third person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity. Ifle orles precedeslo ,la ,los , orlas in a clause, it is replaced withse (e.g.se lo dije instead of*le lo dije ). Used primarily in Spain. Used only in rare circumstances. yo m plural yos or yoes
( psychoanalysis ) ego yo
class 4 of-o they yo
class 9 of-o it FromProto-Nuristani *eka Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háykas Proto-Indo-European *h₁óykos
yo ( Gambir ) [ 1]
one ^ Strand, Richard F. (2016 ), “y′o”, inNûristânî Etymological Lexicon [2] Inherited fromOld Anatolian Turkish یوغ ( yoġ ) , alternative form ofیوق ( yoq ) , whenceyok yoğ
yo
( informal ) no ( informal ) Term of objection, roughly equivalent tonope ,nah ornaw . yo
sentence-final action negation particle ;not de tifiamyo ―I amnot eating Specifically negates action verbs (intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, etc.). To negate a stative verb, seewayo seba tope ( “ to want ” ) are not negated byua , which would be ungrammatical. Instead, one uses the verbfono ( “ to not want ” ) .
Clemens Voorhoeve (1982 ),The Makian languages and their neighbours [10] -yo
Combining stem ofyona yo (plural yoku
path ,trail , a path marked by hand-broken branchesLizot, Jacques (2004 ),Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ [11] →ISBN yo
( transitive ) leave (someone) without aportion from thehunt Cáceres, Natalia (2011 ), “yo”, inGrammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana [12] yó
to becomesaturated withfood ordrinks ; to becomefull (after eating)to becomedrunk to becomefleshy orrobust (in reference to the belly or body) ( idiomatic , euphemistic ) pregnant Àwòyó ( “ a nickname for the orisha Yemọja ” ) -yo
Combining stem ofyona 
