yo

Etymology 1
As a greeting, attested first as a cry of sailors and huntsmen (compare e.g. , ). Originally from, variant forms of , from , from , from ; or perhaps from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. More at, ,.

Modern popularity apparently dates from World War II (claimed to be a common response at s; see definition 4), and then most intensely attested in ; it thence spread globally from American dominance of pop culture post-WWII.

Interjection
Private Smith: Yo!
 * 1)  Present! Here!
 * Sergeant: Smith?
 * 1)  Present! Here!
 * Sergeant: Smith?
 * 1)  Present! Here!
 * Sergeant: Smith?
 * 1)  Present! Here!
 * Sergeant: Smith?
 * 1)  Present! Here!
 * Sergeant: Smith?
 * 1)  Present! Here!
 * Sergeant: Smith?
 * 1) * 2010, "" (Breaking Bad TV series, season 3, episode 9)
 * JESSE: That is messed up, yo.
 * JESSE: That is messed up, yo.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Category:English greetings

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:, hoi
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Latin:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Latin:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Latin:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology 2
From, , etc.

Determiner

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

Pronoun

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

Etymology 4
From.

Noun

 * 1) The letter Ё, ё.

Translations

 * Russian:

Etymology 6
From irregular romanization of the standard pronunciation of.

Noun

 * , a traditional Chinese unit of volume.

Pronoun

 * 1) I, me

Usage notes

 * The form is used when the pronoun isn't followed by a clitic.

Etymology
, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) ; I

Etymology
, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Etymology
.

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  outgoing; sociable

Verb

 * 1) to act in an outgoing manner
 * 2) to socialize with; to interact with

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Interjection

 * 1)   informal greeting, interjection similar to hey

Adjective

 * 1) with

Article

 * 1) the

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

Pronoun

 * 1) they
 * 2) them

Etymology 1
A shortening of "ayo" (come on)

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  first-person singular personal pronoun

Etymology
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) I

Etymology 1
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) field
 * 2) farm

Noun

 * 1) peace

Etymology 3
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) itch

Noun

 * 1) sky

Romanization




Noun

 * 1) snake

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  water

Etymology
, from.

Adverb

 * 1) I

Etymology
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) ; I

Usage notes

 * When more pronouns are included in the same sentence, it is considered impolite to say the pronoun at first; it must be the last one (this also applies to ):

Noun

 * 1)  Freud's concept of the ego

Etymology
.

Interjection

 * 1)  no

Particle

 * 1) ; not

Usage notes
Specifically negates action verbs (intransitive, transitive, ditransitive, etc.). To negate a stative verb, see. The verbs / are not negated by ua, which would be ungrammatical. Instead, one uses the verb.

Noun

 * 1) path, trail, a path marked by hand-broken branches

Verb

 * 1)  to leave (someone) without a portion from the hunt

Verb

 * 1) to become saturated with food or drinks; to become full (after eating)
 * 2) to become drunk
 * 3) to become fleshy or robust (in reference to the belly or body)
 * 4)  to become pregnant