jes

See also: Jes, jěś, and -jes

English

Adverb

jes (not comparable)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of just, representing African American Vernacular English.

Anagrams

Albanian
Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *etja, a denominative of jetë[1].

Verb

jes (first-person singular past tense jeta, participle jetë)

  1. to remain
  2. to exist

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (2000) A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, Leiden: Brill, page 186

Esperanto

Etymology

From English yes.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /jes/
  • Hyphenation: jes
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Adverb

jes

  1. yes
    Antonym: ne

Derived terms

Descendants

Finnish

Alternative forms

Interjection

jes!

  1. (colloquial) yes! (used to express pleasure, joy, or great excitement)

Kom (Cameroon)

Verb

jes

  1. to decay
  2. to degrade, to wear out

References
  • Randy Jones, Provisional Kom - English lexicon (2001, Yaoundé, Cameroon)
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