different between yeke vs yee

English

Alternative forms

• yek

Etymology

From Middle English ?ek, ?eac, from Old English ??ac (“cuckoo, gawk”), from Proto-Germanic *gaukaz (“cuckoo”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?Au?-, *g?eg?Au?- (“cuckoo”). Cognate with Scots gowk (“cuckoo”), German Gauch (“cuckoo”), Danish gøg (“cuckoo”), Swedish gök (“cuckoo”). See also gawk, gowk.

Noun

yeke (plural yekes)

1. (Britain dialectal) A cuckoo.

Anagrams

• yeek

English

Alternative forms

• ye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ji/

Pronoun

yee (personal pronoun)

1. (archaic and Tyneside) you (the people being addressed); Alternative spelling of ye
2. obsolete emphatic of ye
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book V

     Speak yee who best can tell, ye sons of light,
     Angels, for yee behold him, and with songs
     And choral symphonies, Day without Night,
     Circle his Throne, rejoycing, yee in Heav'n,
     On Earth joyn all yee Creatures to extoll.

Interjection

yee

1. (slang) yes

Anagrams

• Eye, eye

Luganda

Adverb

yee

1. yes

Antonyms

• aaa

References

The Essentials of Luganda, J. D. Chesswas, 4th edition. Oxford University Press: Nairobi. 1967, p. 152.

Middle English

Pronoun

yee

1. Alternative form of ye (“you”)

Navajo

Postposition

yee

1. with, by means of, by means of it

Yola

Particle

yee

1. yes

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN