different between yea vs yah

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ye, ?ea, ya, ?a, from Old English ??a, i? (“yea, yes”), from Proto-Germanic *ja (“yes, thus, so”), from Proto-Indo-European *y? (“already”). Cognate with Scots yea, ya (“yes, yea, indeed, so”), Saterland Frisian ja, jee (“yes”), West Frisian ja (“yes”), Dutch ja (“yes”), German ja (“yes, yea”), Swedish ja, jo (“yes, well, indeed”), Icelandic já (“yes”), Latin iam (“now, already”), Italian già (“now, already”), Spanish ya (“now, already”), Polish ju? (“already”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: y?, IPA^(key): /je?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophone: yay

Adverb

yea (not comparable)

1. (dated) Yes, indeed.
   • 1597-1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum

     Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]

2. Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture).

   The pony was yea high.

Synonyms

• (yes): aye, yep, yes, yup, yeah, yigh (when contradicting)

Antonyms

• nay
• no

Conjunction

yea

1. (archaic) Or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
   • • (with modern spelling) [N]ow such a life ungodly, without a care of doing the will of the Lord (though they profess him in their mouths, yea though they believe and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea have knowledge of the Scriptures) yet if they live ungodly, they deny God, and therefore shall be denied
   • c. 1633, The Flea, by John Donne

     O stay, three lives in one flea spare,

     Where we almost, yea, more than married are.

Interjection

yea

1. (in some dialects of American English, including Southern, Western, and African American Vernacular) Yeah, right, yes.

Noun

yea (plural yeas)

1. An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken

   Antonym: nay

Etymology 2

From yeah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?(?)/, /?jæ.?/
• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

yea

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative spelling of yeah

Etymology 3

See yay.

Pronunciation

• enPR: y?, IPA^(key): /je?/

Interjection

yea

1. Misspelling of yay.

Anagrams

• Aye, aye, yae

English

Etymology 1

An alternative pronunciation, akin to yeah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??/, /j??/

Adverb

yah (not comparable)

1. (Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand) Yes.

   Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.

Translations

Interjection

yah

1. An expression uttered to encourage a horse to run faster.

Translations

Etymology 2

From the pronunciation of “yes” which such people use.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j??/

Noun

yah (plural yahs)

1. (Britain, informal) An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger.

Translations

Anagrams

• AYH, Hay, YHA, hay

Gullah

Etymology

Variant of yuh (“here”).

Adverb

yah

1. here

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jah/
• Rhymes: -jah, -ah

Noun

yah

1. father (male parent)

Synonyms

• ayah (ayahanda, aya, yah)
• bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, baba, papa)
• abah (aba, bah)
• rama

Manx

Interjection

yah?

1. Alternative form of yagh

Navajo

Etymology

Compare Carrier yoh (“house”)

Postposition

yah

1. inside, into an enclosed space, into an enclosure

Zhuang

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ja?/
• Tone numbers: ya⁶
• Hyphenation: yah

Noun

yah (Sawndip forms ???? or ???? or ? or ???? or ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography ya?)

1. wife
2. mother-in-law (husband's mother)
3. old woman; granny

Classifier

yah (old orthography ya?)

1. Classifier for elderly women.