yox
English
Verb
yox (third-person singular simple present yoxes, present participle yoxing, simple past and past participle yoxed)
- (archaic) Alternative form of yex (“hiccup”)
- 1933, Medical Life, volume 40, page 544:
- Yoxing (or hiccoughing) is the sound in the nose of violent moving of the stomach and comes of a crampy disposition of the stomach with two principal causes
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yōk (“there is not”).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰸 (yok), Turkish yok etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [joχ]
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Predicative
yox
- antonym of var (“there is, there are, there exists, there exist”): there is no, there are no, there does not exist, there do not exist
- antonym of var (“to have”): to not have
- Ayağı yoxdur, qaçır; qanadı yoxdur, uçur.
- It has no legs/feet, [but] it runs; it has no wings, [but] it flies (a traditional riddle).
- Deyəcək bir sözün yoxundursa, get.
- If you don't have anything to say, then leave.
Synonyms
Particle
yox
See also
References
- Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jōk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Tzotzil
Derived terms
- yaxub
References
- “yoš(1)” in Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
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