oui
See also ouï
French
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Etymology
1380; from Old French oïl (1100), compound of o affirmative particle (compare Occitan òc ‘yes’) and il ‘he, him’, akin to o-je, o nos, o vos, all ‘yes’ constructed with pronouns.[1]O and òc are both from Latin hoc ‘this’, and the semantic shift is calqued on Gaulish: compare Old Irish tó ‘yes’, Welsh do ‘indeed’, from Proto-Indo-European *tod (neuter) ‘this, that’.[2]
Pronunciation
Adverb
oui
Antonyms
Interjection
oui
Antonyms
See also
- si ("yes" used to contradict a negative statement or question)
References
- ^ Trésor de la langue française informatisé, s.vv. ‘oui’, ‘oïl’, [1]
- ^ Peter Schrijver, Studies in the History of Celtic Pronouns and Particles, Maynooth, 1997, 15.
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Etymology
From Old French oïl, a contraction of o il, from Vulgar Latin.
Adverb
oui
Interjection
oui
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