yo

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

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”), Flemish jow (“hi, hey”) and Dutch jo (“hi, hey”). More at yea, ow, ew.

yo

1. (slang) A greeting similar to hi.

   Yo Paulie! How's it going?

2. (slang) An interjection similar to hey.

   Yo, check this out!

3. (military slang) Present! Here!

   Sergeant: Smith? Private Smith: Yo!

From you're, your, etc.

• yo'

yo

1. (African American Vernacular) Contraction of you are.

   Yo a fool.

yo

1. (colloquial) Eye dialect spelling of your.

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

yo

1. (Baltimore) third-person singular, familiar

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

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

yo

1. Abbreviation of year/years old.

From Russian ё (jo).

yo (plural yos)

1. The letter Ё, ё.

• oy

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

yo

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

Borrowed from English yo.

yo

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

     “Yo!” Mathias så op.

Borrowed from English yo.

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

yo

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

yo

1. with

yo pl

1. the

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

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

yo

1. they
2. them

yo (objective case me)

1. First person singular pronoun; I

yo

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

yo

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

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego.

• IPA^(key): /jo/, /jɔ/

yo (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ייו‎)

1. I

yo

1. The second-person singular pronoun: you.

• “yo” in Compendium of the World's Languages: Ladakhi to Zuni, Volume 2, page 988

yo

1. sky

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

yo (Zhuyin ˙ㄧㄛ)

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

yo

1. Nonstandard spelling of yō.

• 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.

yo

1. Alternative form of yow

• “you, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.

yo

1. Alternative form of heo

• “he, pron. (3)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

yo (plural yɔ́)

1. snake

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

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

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

yo f (plural yos)

1. (Sark) water

yo

• masculine nominative singular of ya (“who (relative)”)

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɟ͡ʝo/
• IPA^(key): [ʝo̞]
• IPA^(key): [dʒo̞]
• (Rioplatense) IPA^(key): [ʃo̞]

yo

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

yo m (plural yos or yoes)

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

• 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.

-yo

1. Combining stem of yona.

-yo

1. Combining stem of yona.