different between ayo vs yayo

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?o?/

Etymology 1

Combination of hey and yo

Interjection

ayo

1. (African-American Vernacular, informal) A greeting.

Synonyms

• (greeting): hey, hi, yo

Etymology 2

Yoruba [Term?]

Noun

ayo (uncountable)

1. (West African English) A strategy game.

Synonyms

• (strategy game): oware, awari

See also

• Oware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Yao

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

ayo (inanimate)

1. Obsolete spelling of ?yoh

Hiligaynon

Noun

ayô

1. a pet name
2. bargain, discount

Verb

ayô

1. to ask or request

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?jo/
• Hyphenation: a?yo

Interjection

ayo

1. (informal) come on!

Synonyms

• mari (polite)

Further reading

• “ayo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Papiamentu

Alternative forms

• ayó (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Spanish adiós and Portuguese adeus.

Interjection

ayo

1. goodbye
2. farewell

Portuguese

Noun

ayo m (plural ayos, feminine aya, feminine plural ayas)

1. Obsolete spelling of aio

Spanish

Etymology

Presumed to be from the unattested Gothic *???????????????????? (*hagja), or from Latin avia.

Pronunciation

Noun

ayo m (plural ayos, feminine aya, feminine plural ayas)

1. Person who takes care of children; tutor

Further reading

• “ayo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Yami

Noun

ayo

1. river; stream; brook

Yurumanguí

Noun

ayo

1. river

References

• Prehistoria: Lenguas y dialectos indigenas de Colombia (Luis Duque Gómez, Sergio Elías Ortiz, 1965), citing Romero's wordlist

English

Alternative forms

• yeyo, yay

Etymology

From Spanish llello.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?je?.o?/

Noun

yayo (uncountable)

1. (US, slang) cocaine
   • 2004, Lil' Jon and the East Side Boyz (Jonathan Mortimer Smith), "Grand Finale" (rap song)

     We yayo experts, we been whippin' the yola / Since the crackas decided to take the coke from Coca-Cola.

   • 2009, Christine A. Nandi, The ABC's of Raising a Successful Student (page 7)

     They just spend their time sniffing up the yayo.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:cocaine.

Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

yayo m (plural yayos)

1. grandpa

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “yayo”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

Cebuano

Etymology

From yaya. Compare Spanish yayo.

Noun

yayo

1. (often humorous) a male nanny; a manny

Verb

yayo

1. (often humorous) to work or act as a manny

Spanish

Etymology

Unknown origin, perhaps from whimsical slang by youth. A prevailing theory, given the term's ultimate origin in Aragon and Catalan-speaking territories, is derivation from Catalan jajo (“grandpa”). It seems the first form generated was *jaja (“grandma”), from which the masculine form was derived. This would come from Catalan avia (“grandmother”) (from Vulgar Latin *avi?la, feminine diminutive of avus (“grandfather”)), and from juvenile palatalization would generate something like *ai?a. The common phenomenon of syllabic repetition in children's language (cf. papa, baba, etc.) would then cause the form jaja above, which would then be spread into Spanish and masculinized.

Otherwise, perhaps masculinized from Greek ?????? (giagiá, “grandmother”).

Pronunciation

Noun

yayo m (plural yayos)

1. (chiefly Spain, Catalonia, informal) grandpa, pops

Related terms

• yaya

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish yayo (“grandpa”). Compare Catalan iaio and Cebuano yayo.

Noun

yayo (feminine yaya)

1. (often humorous) a male nanny; a manny