ouais

Etymology
From via dialectal variants; also possibly from.

Before becoming an informal synonym of, the word was exclamatory. According to Auguste Scheler, it could be linked to Indo-European roots: in Greek,  in Latin,  in Portuguese,  in English,  in German,  in Spanish or  in Romanian.

Interjection

 * 1)  ; yeah, yep, yup, yes, affirmative expression
 * 2)   used to express consent
 * 3)  wow
 * 4) * Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris, 1832
 * "fr"
 * 1)  wow
 * 2) * Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris, 1832
 * "fr"
 * 1) * Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris, 1832
 * "fr"

- Ouais ! dit le roi en se grattant l’oreille gauche avec la main droite, cela fait un bon bout de ma ville !


 * 1)  whoo expresses joy