yo

See also: YO, yo', y/o, yō, yö, y.o., and Appendix:Variations of "yo"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /jəʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• (US) IPA^(key): /joʊ/

• Audio (AU)

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Etymology 1

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”), from Proto-Indo-European *yē (“already”); or perhaps from Old English ēow (“Wo!, Alas!”, interjection). Compare Danish, Swedish, Norwegian jo (“yes”), Dutch jow (“hi, hey”) and Dutch jo (“hi, hey”). More at yea, ow, ew.

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. (military slang) Present! Here!

   Sergeant: Smith?
   Private Smith: Yo!

Synonyms

• (greeting): hey, hi; see also Category:Greetings
• (interjection): hey

Etymology 2

From you're, your, etc.

Alternative forms

• yo'

Determiner

yo

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of your.

   Yo sandwich has only bacon in it. Want some ketchup on that?

Pronoun

yo

1. (Baltimore) third-person singular, familiar

   Yo was tuckin' in his shirt! (Stotko and Troyer 2007)

Etymology 3

Noun

yo

1. Initialism of year/years old.
2. (crochet) Initialism of yarn over.

Etymology 4

From Russian ё (jo).

Noun

yo (plural yos)

1. The letter Ё, ё.

Translations

Ё

• Russian: ё (ru) n (jo)

Etymology 5

Numeral

yo

1. Short for yoleven.

Anagrams

• oy

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Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjo/

Pronoun

yó

1. I, me

Usage notes

• When followed by a word starting with a consonant, the form yóo is used.

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

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo. Akin to Spanish yo and Portuguese eu.

Pronoun

yo

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

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Asturian

Etymology

From Old Leonese yo, from Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego.

Pronoun

yo

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish yo.

Pronoun

yo (accusative conmigo)

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English yo.

Interjection

yo

1. (slang) yo
   • 2016, Lisbeth Zornig, Mikael Lindholm, Bundfald, Art People →ISBN

     “Yo!” Mathias så op.

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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)

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Guerrero Amuzgo

Adjective

yo

1. with

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Haitian Creole

Article

yo pl

1. the

Usage notes

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

See also

• a
• an
• la
• lan
• nan
• sa a (emphatic value)
• yon (indef. art.)

Pronoun

yo (contracted form y)

1. they
2. them

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Japanese

Romanization

yo

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

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Kristang

Pronoun

yo

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

See also

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

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Ladino

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jo/, /jɔ/

Pronoun

yo (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ייו‎)

1. I

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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

Etymology 2

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^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis), pages 15-16

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Lingala

Pronoun

yo

1. Alternative form of yɔ̂

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Lower Tanana

Noun

yo

1. sky

References

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

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Mandarin

Romanization

yo (Zhuyin ˙ㄧㄛ)

1. Pinyin transcription of 喲, 哟
2. Pinyin transcription of 嚛, 𪠸

yo

1. Nonstandard spelling of yō.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

yo

1. Alternative form of yow

Etymology 2

Pronoun

yo

1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

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Noone

Noun

yo (plural yɔ́)

1. snake

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

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Norman

Alternative forms

• iâo (continental Normandy)
• iaoue (Guernsey)
• ieau (Jersey)

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

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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)

Pronoun

yo

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego, from Proto-Italic *egō; akin to Greek εγώ (egó), Sanskrit अहम् (aham), all from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Akin to Italian io, Sicilian iu, Catalan jo, Aragonese and Asturian yo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝo/, [ˈɟ͡ʝo]

• 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

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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, and tú must be said after absent (this applies also for ti and mí):

  Iremos Rosa, tú y yo. ― Rosa, you and I will go.

Derived terms

• yo que tú

 

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/la5	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

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

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Xhosa

Pronoun

-yo

1. Combining stem of yona.

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Zulu

Pronoun

-yo

1. Combining stem of yona.