different between yas vs yus

English

Interjection

yas

1. (often African-American Vernacular) Nonstandard spelling of yes.

Pronoun

yas

1. Nonstandard spelling of yous.

Derived terms

• yas'm

Further reading

• "Where Does "YAAAS" Come From?" in Bustle

Anagrams

• AYs, ays, say

Aleut

Pronunciation

• (Western) IPA^(key): /?jas/

Noun

yas

1. (Western) reef (rocks at or near surface of water)

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Navajo

Alternative forms

• zas (Eastern Navajo)

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *y?x?s. Cognate with Sarcee zas, Chipewyan ya?, Beaver yas, Carrier yv?, Sekani yas, Ahtna yaas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??s/

Noun

yas

1. (Western Navajo) snow

Derived terms

• yas dit?é?é (“wet snow”)
• Yas Ni?t?ees
• yaskáá?

English

Etymology 1

Dialectal form of yes.

Adverb

yus

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of yes.
   • 1892, from Punch, or The London Charivari:

     Yus, to live in dirt, I feel is a `orrid degradation; but one thing I'd like to know, is it wus than living on it?

   • 1922, Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, compilers and editors, The Best British Short Stories of 1922:

     Wych Street? Yus, of course I knoo Wych Street. Used to go there with some of the boys -- when I was Covent Garden way.

Etymology 2

Russian ?? (jus), from Old Church Slavonic ??? (?s?, “big yus”)

Alternative forms

• jus

Noun

yus (plural yuses)

1. Either of two letters, little yus (?) and big yus (?), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet.

Translations

Etymology 3

See yu.

Noun

yus

1. plural of yu