different between yod vs yad

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /j?d/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /j?d/, enPR: y?d
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

yod (plural yods)

1. Alternative form of yodh
2. (phonetics) A palatal approximant, /j/.
   • 1976, Michael L. Mazzola, Proto-Romance and Sicilian, Peter de Ridder Press, ?ISBN, page 104:

     A statement of consonantal changes for Sicilian is dependent on the development of two sets of clusters, consonant plus yod and consonant plus /l/.

   • 1984, Frederick B. Agard, A Course in Romance Linguistics, volume 2, Georgetown University Press, ?ISBN, page 75:

     Wherever in the West (including northern Italia) the fricative allophone [x?] of coda /k/ before onsets /t/ and /s/ still remains…it now becomes semivocalized as yod, or more probably voiceless yod….

   • 2008, Philippe Ségéral & Tobias Scheer, "Positional Factors in Lenition and Fortition", in Joaquim Brandão de Carvalho et al. (eds.), Lenition and Fortition, Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 152:

     Word-initial yod, however, does not strengthen in either of the dialects considered, which respond to Polish jab?ko, jagoda, jelén, jutro (all [j-]) "apple, berry, deer, tomorrow" with unaltered initial yod.

Derived terms

• yod coalescence
• yodization
• yodless
• yod-dropping
• yod-dropper

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

yod

1. Pronunciation spelling of yard.

Anagrams

• doy

Italian

Noun

yod m (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of iod

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hebrew ??? (yád, “hand”)

Noun

yad (plural yads or yadim)

1. (Judaism) A pointer used in the ritual of Torah-reading.

Etymology 2

From the Tifinagh alphabet.

Noun

yad

1. The letter ? in the Tifinagh alphabet.

Anagrams

• Day, d'ya, day, ? Day

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [j?d]

Etymology 1

From Common Turkic *y?t (“alien, foreign, unfamiliar”). Cognate with Bashkir ?? (yat), Kazakh ??? (jat),Uzbek yot (“alien, foreign”), Turkmen ýat etc.

Adjective

yad (comparative daha yad, superlative ?n yad)

1. alien, strange, foreign
2. unfamiliar

   Synonym: özg?

Derived terms

• yadplanetli (“extraterrestrial”)

Noun

yad (definite accusative yad?, plural yadlar)

1. stranger

   Synonym: özg?

Declension

Derived terms

• yadplanetli (“alien”)

Etymology 2

From Persian ???? (yâd).

Noun

yad (definite accusative yad?, plural yadlar)

1. memory

Declension

Derived terms

• yadda? (“memory”)
• yadda qalmaq (“to remember”)
• yadda saxlamaq (“to remember”)
• yaddan ç?xmaq (“to forget”)
• yada dü?m?k (“to come to mind”)
• yada salmaq (“to remind”)

Related terms

• yadigar (“memento”)

Pali

Alternative forms

Pronoun

yad

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of ya (“which (relative)”)

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from non-rhotic English yard.

Noun

yad (nominative plural yads)

1. yard

Declension