yoyo

Formerly a trademark. Likely from Ilocano yóyo or another Philippine cognate.[1]

yoyo (plural yoyos)

1. Alternative spelling of yo-yo

yoyo (third-person singular simple present yoyos, present participle yoyoing, simple past and past participle yoyoed)

1. Alternative spelling of yo-yo

From English yo-yo / yoyo. Formerly a trademark. Most likely from Ilocano yóyo.

• Hyphenation: yo‧yo

yoyo

1. a yo-yo; a toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist
2. a cake that is shaped like a yoyo, akin to a cookie sandwich, often purple and with a margarine filling and rolled in white sugar

yoyo

1. to play with a yo-yo

• IPA^(key): /jo.jo/

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yoyo m (plural yoyos)

1. yo-yo

• “yoyo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

yoyo (plural yoyi)

1. yo-yo

From Spanish yoyo, according to Constantino (1971).[1] Compare Spanish yo (“I”) & Ilocano yo (“you; by you; your”) or Tagalog iyo (“yours”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjojo/, [ˈjo.jo]
• Hyphenation: yo‧yo

yóyo

1. yo-yo

yoyo (first-person possessive yoyoku, second-person possessive yoyomu, third-person possessive yoyonya)

1. yo-yo

yoyo

1. mudfish

• Rhymes: -oʝo
• Syllabification: yo‧yo

yoyo m (plural yoyos)

1. (Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Puerto Rico) Alternative form of yoyó

• “yoyo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• yuyo

Borrowed from English yo-yo, a genericized trademark, possibly from Ilocano yoyo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈjojoʔ/ [ˈjo.joʔ]
• Rhymes: -ojoʔ
• Syllabification: yo‧yo

yoyò (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓᜌᜓ)

1. yo-yo

• “yoyo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• IPA^(key): [ˈjo.jo]

yoyo

1. wow!

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh