yigh

Interjection

 * 1)  yes, used when contradicting.
 * I can't do it.
 * Yigh, thou can.
 * Taken from page 206 in Shorrocks (1999).

Usage notes
Shorrocks compares the Lancastrian word yigh to the German doch or the French si.

Joseph Wright classified yigh as a variant of yea. In addition to Lancashire, Wright lists yigh for west Yorkshire, Hampshire and the North Country. (See page 573 in volume 6 of English Dialect Dictionary).