yea
Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of EnglishCategory:Translingual terms derived from English#YEA YeravaCategory:Translingual abbreviations#YEA.
Symbol
yeaCategory:Translingual lemmas#YEACategory:Translingual symbols#YEACategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#YEACategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#YEACategory:Pages with entries#YEACategory:Pages with 3 entries#YEA
See also
English
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#YEACategory:English terms derived from Middle English#YEA ye, ȝea, ya, ȝa, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#YEACategory:English terms derived from Old English#YEA ġēa, iā (“yea, yes”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#YEACategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#YEA *jā.
The modern pronunciation shows an irregular development of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language, probably from association with the antonym nay.
Pronunciation
- enPR: yā, IPA(key): /jeɪ/Category:English 1-syllable words#YEACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#YEA
- (obsolete) enPR: yī, IPA(key): /jiː/Category:English 1-syllable words#YEACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#YEA[1]
- (Early Modern) IPA(key): /jiː/, /jɛː/[2]Category:English 1-syllable words#YEACategory:English 1-syllable words#YEACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#YEA
Adverb
yea (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#YEACategory:English adverbs#YEACategory:English uncomparable adverbs#YEACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#YEACategory:Pages with entries#YEACategory:Pages with 3 entries#YEA (datedCategory:English dated terms#YEA)
- Yes, indeed.
- 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
- Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- Let no man say that the Devil is not a cruel tyrant. He may give his folk some scrapings of unhallowed pleasure, but he will exact tithes, yea, of anise and cummin, in return, and there is aye the reckoning to pay at the hinder end.Category:English terms with quotations#YEA
- 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 120:
- Something of the curate's aptitude for abasement came to him at that moment, and he wept, yea, holding with both hands to Miss Gimblet, in his grief he wept aloud, while Miss Gimblet wiped his countenance with her handkerchief and wept a little, too.Category:English terms with quotations#YEA
- 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
- (Midwestern USCategory:American English#YEA) Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture by way of measurement).
- 2016, Stranger Things, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Hopper, Earl (David Harbour, David Dwyer):
- This kid... What'd he look like? / Well, he was about yea high. You know, tiny like. I didn't get a good look at him, though. He was back in the kitchen.Category:English terms with quotations#YEA
Synonyms
Antonyms
Conjunction
yeaCategory:English lemmas#YEACategory:English conjunctions#YEACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#YEACategory:Pages with entries#YEACategory:Pages with 3 entries#YEA
- (archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#YEA) Or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
- 1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 40:
- [N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]Category:English terms with quotations#YEA
- (with modern spelling) [N]ow such a life ungodly, without a care of doing the will of the Lord (though they profess him in their mouths, yea though they believe and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea have knowledge of the Scriptures) yet if they live ungodly, they deny God, and therefore shall be denied
- c. 1633, John Donne, The Flea:
- O stay, three lives in one flea spare,Category:English terms with quotations#YEA
Where we almost, yea, more than married are.
Interjection
yeaCategory:English lemmas#YEACategory:English interjections#YEACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#YEACategory:Pages with entries#YEACategory:Pages with 3 entries#YEA
Noun
yea (plural yeas)Category:English lemmas#YEACategory:English nouns#YEACategory:English countable nouns#YEACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#YEACategory:Pages with entries#YEACategory:Pages with 3 entries#YEA
- An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken
- 2009 January 6, “Still Broken After All These Years”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 January 2018:
- Recently senators could fax in their yeas or nays to the committee chairman.Category:English terms with quotations#YEA
Etymology 2
From yeah.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjɛ(ə)/, /ˈjæ(ə)/Category:English 1-syllable words#YEACategory:English 2-syllable words#YEACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#YEA
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#YEAAudio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛəCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛə#YEACategory:Rhymes:English/ɛə/1 syllable#YEA
Interjection
yeaCategory:English lemmas#YEACategory:English interjections#YEACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#YEACategory:Pages with entries#YEACategory:Pages with 3 entries#YEA
- (nonstandardCategory:English nonstandard terms#YEA, proscribedCategory:English proscribed terms#YEA) Alternative spelling of yeah.
Etymology 3
See yay.
Pronunciation
Interjection
yeaCategory:English lemmas#YEACategory:English interjections#YEACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#YEACategory:Pages with entries#YEACategory:Pages with 3 entries#YEA
- Misspelling of yayCategory:English misspellings#YEA.
References
- ↑ Jespersen, Otto (1909), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9), volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 11.75, page 339.
- ↑ Dobson, E[ric] J. (1957), English pronunciation 1500-1700, second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 115, page 625: “Yea has eModE IPA(key): [iː]Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#YEA beside from ME ẹ̄ beside ME ę̄ (see § 119).”
Anagrams
Category:English heteronyms#YEACategory:English 3-letter words#YEACategory:English terms with unraised Middle English /ɛː/#YEAYola
Adverb
yeaCategory:Yola lemmas#YEACategory:Yola adverbs#YEACategory:Yola entries with incorrect language header#YEACategory:Pages with entries#YEACategory:Pages with 3 entries#YEA
- alternative form of yee
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 21-23:
- Ye pace——yea, we mai zei, ye vaste pace whilke bee ee-stent owr ye londe zince th'ast ee-cam,Category:Yola terms with quotations#YEA
- The peace——yes, we may say the profound peace—which overspreads the land since your arrival,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114