yo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "yo"

Translingual

Symbol

yo

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

English

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /jəʊ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊ
  • (US) IPA(key): /joʊ/
  • Audio (AU)(file)

Etymology 1

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). Originally from Middle English yo, io, ȝo, yeo, yaw, variant forms of ya, ye (“yes, yea”), from Old English ġēa (“yes, yea”), from Proto-Germanic *ja (“yes, thus, so”), from Proto-Indo-European *yē (“already”); or perhaps from Old English ēow (“Wo!, Alas!”, interjection). Compare Danish, Swedish, German, Norwegian jo (“yes (flexible meaning)”), Dutch jow (“hi, hey”) and Dutch jo (“hi, hey”). More at yea, ow, ew.

Modern popularity apparently dates from World War II (claimed to be a common response at roll calls; see definition 4), and then most intensely attested in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; it thence spread globally from American dominance of pop culture post-WWII.

Interjection

yo

  1. (slang) A greeting similar to hi.
    Synonyms: oi, wotcher
    Yo Paulie! How's it going?
  2. (slang) An interjection similar to hey.
    Synonyms: ahoy, oi; see also Thesaurus:hey
    Yo, check this out!
    Check this out, yo!
  3. (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”, in Study Breaks‎:
      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.
  4. (military slang) Present! Here!
    Sergeant: Smith?
    Private Smith: Yo!
  5. (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.
Synonyms
  • (greeting): hey, hi; see also Category:Greetings
  • (interjection): hey
Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From you're, your, etc.

Alternative forms

Determiner

yo

  1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of your.
    Yo sandwich has only bacon in it. Want some ketchup on that?
Derived terms

Pronoun

yo

  1. (Baltimore) third-person singular, familiar
    Yo was tuckin' in his shirt! (Stotko and Troyer 2007)

Noun

yo

  1. Abbreviation of year(s) old; also y.o., y/o.
  2. (crochet) Initialism of yarn over.

Etymology 4

From Russian ё (jo).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jɒ/

Noun

yo (plural yos)

  1. The letter Ё, ё.
Derived terms
Translations

Numeral

yo

  1. Short for yoleven.

Etymology 6

From irregular romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠 (yuè).

Noun

yo (plural yo or yos)

  1. Obsolete form of yue, a traditional Chinese unit of volume.

See also

Anagrams

Afar

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈjo/, [ˈjɔ]

Pronoun

yó

  1. I, me

Usage notes
  • The form yóo is used when the pronoun isn't followed by a clitic.

See also
Afar personal pronouns
1st person 2nd person 3rd person m 3rd person f
Subject Singular anú atú úsuk ís
Plural nanú isín úsun
Object Singular yó kó ká tét
Plural né sín kén

References
  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “yo”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronoun

yo m sg or f sg

  1. First-person singular nominative pronoun; I

See also
Aragonese personal pronouns
nominative disjunctive dative accusative
first person singular yo me, m'2
plural masculine nusatros1.1 nos1.6
feminine nusatras1.1
second person singular familiar tú te, t'2
formal vusté,1.2 vos
plural familiar masculine vusatros1.3 vos, tos3
feminine vusatras1.3
formal vustés,1.2 vos
third person singular masculine él1.4 le1.7 lo,1.8 l'2
feminine ella1.5 la
plural masculine els, ellos1.4 les1.7 los1.9
feminine ellas1.5 las
reflexive — se, s'2
  1. The forms shown in the table are the most widespread ones. Some varieties use different forms:
    1. nusotros/as (Ansotano, Cheso, Somontanos) and nusaltros/as (Benasquese and Belsetán).
    2. usté(s) (Benasquese), ustet(z) (Ansotano), vustet(z) (Tensino, Somontanos)
    3. vusotros/as (Ansotano, Cheso, Somontanos) and vusaltros/as (Benasquese and Belsetán).
    4. ell(s) (Benasquese) and er(s) (Belsetán).
    5. era(s) (Belsetán).
    6. mos (Ribagorçan). Before third-person pronouns and the adverbial pronoun en the contracted form mo' is used.
    7. li(s) (Cheso, Tensino).
    8. el (Ribagorçan). The contracted form l' is used before verbs beginning with vowel sounds and 'l after pronouns ending in vowels and no (“no, not”).
    9. es, els (Ribagorçan). These forms are contracted to 's and 'ls after pronouns ending in vowels and no (“no, not”).
  2. The contracted forms are used before verbs beginning with vowel sounds.
  3. In Ribagorçan the contracted form to' is used before third-person pronouns and the adverbial pronoun en.

References
  • “yo”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronoun

yo

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish yo.

Pronoun

yo (accusative conmigo)

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

Chinese

Etymology

From English yo.

Pronunciation

Adjective

yo

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) outgoing; sociable

Verb

yo (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang)

  1. to act in an outgoing manner
  2. to socialize with; to interact with
  3. (euphemistic) Used in certain interjections to replace vulgar verbs.

Derived terms

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English yo.

Interjection

yo

  1. (slang) yo
    • 2016, Lisbeth Zornig, Mikael Lindholm, Bundfald, Art People, →ISBN:
      “Yo!” Mathias så op.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yo.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /joː/
  • Hyphenation: yo
  • Rhymes: -oː

Interjection

yo

  1. (slang) yo (informal greeting, interjection similar to hey)

Guerrero Amuzgo

Adjective

yo

  1. with

Haitian Creole

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Article

yo pl

  1. the

Usage notes

This word is only used in its article sense when it modifies a plural noun.

See also

Pronoun

yo (contracted form y)

  1. they
  2. them

Indonesian

Etymology 1

A shortening of "ayo" (come on)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English yo.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /joː/
  • Hyphenation: yo
  • Rhymes: -oː

Interjection

yo

  1. (slang) yo (greeting, interjection similar to hey)

Japanese

Romanization

yo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of よ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ヨ

Kristang

Pronoun

yo

  1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)[1]

See also
Kristang personal pronouns (edit)
Person Singular Plural
First yo nus
Second bos bolotu
Third eli olotu

References
  1. 2010, Ladislav Prištic, Kristang - Crioulo de Base Portuguesa, Masaryk University, page 26.

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish yo, from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jo/, /jɔ/

Pronoun

yo (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ייו)

  1. I

Lashi

Etymology 1

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese *hja, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hja. Cognates include Jingpho yi.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jo˧/, [ju˧˩]

Noun

yo

  1. field
  2. farm

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jo˧/

Noun

yo

  1. peace

Etymology 3

From Proto-Lolo-Burmese [Term?], from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-ja. Cognates include Jingpho kăya.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /joː˧/, [jɔ˧˨]

Noun

yo

  1. itch

References
  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎, Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), pages 15-16

Lingala

Pronoun

yo

  1. Alternative form of yɔ̂

Lower Tanana

Noun

yo

  1. sky

References
  • James Kari, Lower Tanana Athabaskan Listening and Writing Exercises (1991)

Mandarin

Romanization

yo (yo5／yo0, Zhuyin ˙ㄧㄛ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 喲／哟
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚛／𪠸, 𪠸

yo

  1. Nonstandard spelling of yō.

Usage notes
  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

Pronoun

yo

  1. Alternative form of yow

Pronoun

yo

  1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

Noone

Noun

yo (plural yɔ́)

  1. snake

References

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French yaue, ewe, euwe, egua (“water”), from Latin aqua (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”).

Noun

yo f (plural yos)

  1. (Sark) water

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Adverb

yo

  1. I

Descendants
  • Ladino: yo/ייו
  • Spanish: yo
    • Chavacano: yo
    • → Interlingue: yo

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀬𑁄 (Brahmi script)
  • यो (Devanagari script)
  • যো (Bengali script)
  • යො (Sinhalese script)
  • ယော or ယေႃ (Burmese script)
  • โย (Thai script)
  • ᨿᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
  • ໂຍ or ໂຢ (Lao script)
  • យោ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄠𑄮 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

yo

  1. masculine nominative singular of ya (“who (relative)”)

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish yo, from Late Latin eo, from Classical Latin egō̆.

Pronunciation
 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝo/ [ˈɟ͡ʝo]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃo/ [ˈʃo]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒo/ [ˈʒo]

  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification: yo

Pronoun

yo

  1. First-person singular pronoun in the nominative case; I

Usage notes
  • When more pronouns are included in the same sentence, it is considered impolite to say the pronoun yo at first; it must be the last one (this also applies to mí):
    Iremos Rosa, tú y yo. ― Rosa, you and I will go.

Derived terms

See also
Spanish personal pronouns
nominative dative accusative disjunctive
first person singular yo me mí1
plural masculine2 nosotros nos nosotros
feminine nosotras nosotras
second person singular tuteo tú te ti1
voseo vos vos
formal3 usted le, se4 lo/la5 usted
plural familiar6 masculine2 vosotros os vosotros
feminine vosotras vosotras
formal/general3 ustedes les, se4 los/las5 ustedes
third person singular masculine2 él le, se4 lo él
feminine ella la ella
neuter ello7 lo ello
plural masculine2 ellos les, se4 los ellos
feminine ellas las ellas
reflexive — se sí1
  1. Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
  2. Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
  3. Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
  4. If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
  5. Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
  6. Used primarily in Spain
  7. Used only in rare circumstances

Noun

yo m (plural yos or yoes)

  1. (psychoanalysis) Freud's concept of the ego

Descendants
  • Chavacano: yo
  • → Interlingue: yo

Further reading

Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of yok.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /joː/

Interjection

yo

  1. (informal) no
  2. (informal) Term of objection, roughly equivalent to nope, nah or naw.

Further reading

West Makian

Pronunciation

Particle

yo

  1. sentence-final action negation particle; not
    de tifiam yo ― I am not eating

Usage notes

Specifically negates action verbs (intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, etc.). To negate a stative verb, see wayo. The verbs seba/tope (“to want”) are not negated by ua, which would be ungrammatical. Instead, one uses the verb fono (“to not want”).

References
  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

Xhosa

Pronoun

-yo

  1. Combining stem of yona.

Yanomamö

Noun

yo (plural yoku)

  1. path, trail, a path marked by hand-broken branches

References
  • Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɟo]

Verb

yo

  1. (transitive) to leave (someone) without a portion from the hunt

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yo”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon

Yoruba

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jó/

Verb

yó

  1. to become saturated with food or drinks; to become full (after eating)
    1. to become drunk
  2. to become fleshy or robust (in reference to the belly or body)
  3. (idiomatic, euphemistic) to become pregnant

Derived terms
  • Àwòyó (“a nickname for the orisha Yemọja”)

Zulu

Pronoun

-yo

  1. Combining stem of yona.
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