jo

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , neuter plural (mistaken as feminine singular) of , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  Darling, sweetheart.
 * 2) * 1711, traditional, published by James Watson, Old Long Syne:
 * On Old long syne my Jo, on Old long syne, That thou canst never once reflect, on Old long syne.
 * 1) * My Jo Janet (traditional Scottish song)
 * Keek into the draw-well, Janet, Janet; There ye'll see your bonnie sel', My jo, Janet.

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1) The staff used in the Japanese martial art of jodo or jojutsu.

Etymology
Likely a babble word, compare 🇨🇬, and its derivates in other Balkanic languages such as 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Comparison with 🇨🇬 is semantically hard to explain.

Determiner

 * : no, not

Synonyms

 * (Tetova)
 * (Gostivar)

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) to hit, strike, punch
 * 2)  to play
 * 3) to knock, rap
 * 4) to crash
 * 5) to head, go
 * 6) to blow the wind
 * 1) to head, go
 * 2) to blow the wind

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Equivalent to standard High German.

Particle

 * 1) yes (in response to a negative question).

Etymology
~~, from (attested from the sixth century), from, from , from ; akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, all from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) I
 * 2)  me

Synonyms

 * (after most prepositions)

Noun

 * 1) ego the self

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Particle

 * 1)  yeah, yep

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) where

Etymology 1
Borrowed from. Used like 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (adverb) / (conjunction).

Pronunciation

 * (unstressed in context)

Adverb

 * 1) as you know or should know; sometimes vaguely translatable as after all or obviously

Conjunction

 * 1) the
 * Jo mere jeg løber, desto trættere bliver jeg.
 * The more I run, the more tired I become.

Usage notes
jo ... desto ..., jo ... des ... are common constructions.

Etymology 2
From.

Interjection

 * 1) yes  (often followed by I do, he is, etc. in English to indicate contradiction rather than affirmation); identical in usage to the French si. Contrasts with  which confirms positive statements or positively phrased questions.

Usage notes
Negatively phrased questions like Kommer du ikke?, Du kommer ikke, vel?, Du kommer ikke? ("Are you not coming?", "You are not coming, are you?", "You are not coming?") must be answered with jo to indicate that the speaker is, in fact, coming; they cannot be answered with ja ("yes").

Etymology
From.

Interjection

 * 1) hi
 * Ey! - Jo! - Hey! - Hi!
 * 1) bye
 * Later! - Jo! - Later! - Bye!
 * 1) you too
 * Fijn weekend! - Jo! - Have a nice weekend! - You too!

Etymology
From, borrowed from , compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. .

Adverb

 * 1) already prior to some time; so soon
 * 2) now, already emphasizing word
 * (impatiently) Tule jo!
 * Come now!
 * Come now!

Etymology
, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Etymology 1
Alteration of or the respective dialectal cognates. Compare 🇨🇬.

Interjection

 * 1)  yes, yeah, well; expresses agreement in a hesitant or ponderous manner.

Etymology 2
From the respective dialectal words for yes in about half of Northern and Central Germany and all of Western Germany (compare 🇨🇬). Possibly from, possibly from an unrecorded root. The form with /oː/ must have existed in the Middle Ages already, since the word often partakes in the same sound shifts as words with /oː/ from other sources, cf. 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (> 🇨🇬).

Interjection

 * 1)  yes; expresses firm agreement.

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) already

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) already

Interjection

 * 1)  yes

Etymology
. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, regional 🇨🇬.

Particle

 * 1) yes

Noun

 * 1) water

Alternative forms

 * zo

Verb

 * 1) to be
 * 2) to exist

Conjunction

 * 1) because
 * 2) for

Particle

 * 1) the... the...

Determiner

 * 1) his 3rd person singular masculine possessive

Etymology 2
From, possibly via. Compare 🇨🇬.

Particle

 * 1)  yeah

Usage notes

 * Formerly considered obsolete, but seems to have been revived, possibly by influence of 🇨🇬.
 * Usage discouraged by the.

Etymology 1
Perhaps borrowed from,.

Preposition

 * 1) more;
 * pitkā, jo pitkā
 * long, longer
 * long, longer

Etymology 2
Perhaps borrowed from. However, compare also 🇨🇬, thus ultimately a common Finnic borrowing from that has likely been contaminated by the more figurative senses of Latvian, with the latter ultimately a distant cognate of the initial Germanic borrowing.

Preposition

 * 1) yet, already, after all
 * mōnigļikizt, ne jo lǟbõd mōzõ
 * bumblebees, they are already migrating to their burrows (lit. "going inside of earth")
 * amād jo ītist äb peļļõt
 * not everyone makes the same [amount of money] (lit. "everyone after all doesn't earn the same")
 * not everyone makes the same [amount of money] (lit. "everyone after all doesn't earn the same")

Usage notes

 * only lists jo without listing any instances of . Livonian-Latvian-Livonian dictionary, in turn, only lists juo for the comparative forming preposition sense.
 * LĒL doesn't explicitly list the second sense that seems to exactly mirror Latvian jau (including the more figurative applications.) Such a function, however, is inferred from the many usage examples available in the dictionary. As a translation of Latvian jau (strictly in its temporal sense) LĒL lists, cf. Estonian.

Particle

 * 1) yes word used to show agreement or acceptance

Adverb

 * 1) yes

Etymology
Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Root

 * 1) house

Alternative forms

 * (Helgoland)
 * (Sylt and Mooring)

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) already
 * 2) now

Etymology 1
From.

Adverb

 * 1) yes; in disagreement with the last speaker's negative statement.
 * 2) yes or no; expressing doubt. (colloquial)
 * 1) yes or no; expressing doubt. (colloquial)

Usage notes
can be interpreted as an agreement with the person replied to. is used instead of if this agreement could cause ambiguity. In example 1, agreement with the person asking the question would be the opposite of a confirmation that one actually did brush the teeth. As such would be ambiguous. The answer removes the possibility of agreement with the speaker.

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) a skua, seabird of family.

Etymology 1
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) a horse

Related terms
Male given names:

Female given names:

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) a skua, seabird of family.

Etymology 3
From, from.

Etymology 4
Compare 🇨🇬.

Etymology 1
, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Etymology 2
.

Noun

 * 1) yoke

Adverb

 * 1) yes

Etymology
.

Pronoun

 * 1) ; I

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
.

Particle

 * 1)  yeah, yep

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) they

Etymology 1
.

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Etymology 2
. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, regional 🇨🇬.

Particle

 * 1) yes

Interjection

 * 1) stop, whoa (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof)

Etymology 2
Euphemistic.

Interjection

 * 1)  Used to express surprise, amazement, or confusion

Etymology
Possibly from.

Etymology
From, from.

Interjection

 * 1) yes; used as a disagreement to a negative statement or a negatively phrased question.
 * 2) yes (more generally, in a similar vein to  – see its usage notes)
 * 1) yes (more generally, in a similar vein to  – see its usage notes)

Usage notes
can be interpreted as an agreement with the person replied to. is used instead of if this agreement could cause ambiguity. In the example above agreement with the person asking the question would be the opposite of a confirmation that one actually did brush the teeth. As such would be ambiguous. The answer removes the possibility of agreement with the speaker. In Swedish dialects spoken in northern Sweden and Finland, it is however not uncommon for the word to be used in place of  in all cases, at least in spoken language.

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) already

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) already
 * 2)  any more

Etymology 1
From, from , from , dative/accusative of , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) you second person singular nominative formal pronoun

Usage notes
Though it is a singular pronoun, takes the plural conjugation of verbs.

Determiner

 * 1) your second-person singular formal possessive determiner

Usage notes
This postposition also infrequently occurs without, in which case it is not clear whether it inflects at all and its meaning is difficult to determine.

Etymology 1
Proposed to be derived from, compare with 🇨🇬

Verb

 * 1)  to dance

Etymology 2
Possibly from, cognate with 🇨🇬

Verb

 * 1)  to burn
 * 2)  to sting; to irritate

Verb

 * 1) to drip