different between yow vs yok

English

Etymology 1

Noun

yow (plural yows)

1. Alternative form of yowe

Etymology 2

Interjection

yow

1. Expression of pain; ouch.

   Yow! I dropped it on my toe!

2. Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.

   You've been divorced four times? Yow!

Synonyms

• ouch, youch

Anagrams

• Wyo.

Huave

Noun

yow

1. water

Derived terms

References

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 184–185

Middle English

Alternative forms

• yowe, you, youe, yo, yoe, yogh, yaw, yew, yhu, yu, yw, yhow, ?ou, ?ow, ?ou?, ?ow?, ?o, ?owe, ?u, ?w, ?ue, ?iow, ?eu, ?ew, ?ewe, ?aw, ?how, ?howe, ?iu, ?eow, ?ehw, ?uw, gow, gu, giu, geu, geau, eou, eow, eo, eowe, eu, euw?, ou, ow, æu, owe, hou, heou, heu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju?/, /jiu?/
• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /u?/, /iu?/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /ju/

Etymology

From Old English ?ow, from Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz. Initial /j/ is by analogy with ye.

Pronoun

yow (nominative ye)

1. Second-person plural object pronoun: you (plural).
2. (formal) second-person singular object pronoun: you (singular).

Descendants

• English: you
• Scots: you

See also

References

• “you, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.

Scots

Etymology

Uncertain; most likely from Old English ?ow.

Pronoun

yow (personal, emphatic)

1. (South Scots) you

See also

• ee

Whitesands

Noun

yow

1. turtle

References

• Jeremy Hammond, The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu (2009), p. 81

Wolof

Pronunciation

Pronoun

yow

1. you (second-person singular subject pronoun)

See also

Yapese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?w/

Pronoun

yow

1. Third-person dual pronoun; they two

See also

References

• Jensen, John Thayer (1977) Yapese Reference Grammar, Honolulu: The University press of Hawaii, pages 132-135

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?k/

Etymology 1

Noun

yok (plural yoks)

1. Alternative form of yock

Verb

yok (third-person singular simple present yoks, present participle yokking, simple past and past participle yokked)

1. Alternative form of yock

Etymology 2

Reversal of goy, with final devoicing.

Alternative forms

• Yok

Noun

yok (plural yoks)

1. (derogatory) A non-Jew; a Gentile.
   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, page 162:

     I'd been warned about just such a day, when the yoks would come with their white-boned fists and start knocking us about.

Marshallese

Alternative forms

• eok
• yuk

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [e?ok?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /jek?/
• Bender phonemes: {y?k?}

Pronoun

yok

1. you (singular); thou.

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mbula

Noun

yok

1. water

References

• Robert D. Bugenhagen, Salme E. Bugenhagen, Ro ta ipiyooto sua Mbula Uunu = Mbula-English dictionary (2007, SIL)

Middle English

Noun

yok

1. Alternative form of ?ok

Tocharian B

Etymology

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

Noun

yok ?

1. hair
2. color

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????, from Proto-Turkic *y?k (“no; is not, there is not”). Compare Old Turkic ????????? (yok, “no; is not, there is not”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jok/

Adjective

yok (not comparable)

1. there isn't, there aren't (not a verb)

2. it doesn't exist

3. Expressing possession, equivalent of not have.

4. prohibited, forbidden

Usage notes

As an adjective, yok is only used predicatively.

Declension

or

Particle

yok

1. no, nope

Interjection

yok

1. no, nope

Synonyms

• mafi? (slang: there is not; it has ended)
• cicoz (slang: there is not)
• yasak (forbidden)
• hay?r (no as particle or interjection)

Antonyms

• var (there is, there are, have)
• ha, he (yes as particle or interjection)
• evet (yes as particle or interjection)

Volapük

Noun

yok (nominative plural yoks)

1. yoke

Declension