y'

See also: у, ყ, ⴘ, and Appendix:Variations of "y"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jə/
• Rhymes: -ə

Pronoun

y'

1. (informal, dialect, subject pronoun) you; ya; ye.
   • 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:

     Y' are brave, but the most uncrafty lad that I can think upon!

   • 1946, Katharine Susannah Prichard, The roaring nineties: a story of the goldfields of Western Australia:

     Y'r can turn out the place, boys, if y' think Monty or me had anything to do with his blasted wallet.

   • 1986, Robert Herring, McCampbell's war:

     "Then what y'reckon y'gon' do?" the other repeated.

Derived terms

• y'all
• y'know

Translations

informal second-person pronoun

• French: t’ (fr)

Louisiana Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j‿/

Pronoun

y'

1. prevocalic form of yé (“they, them”)

   Y'a gin traka. ― They're gonna have a problem.

Yola

Article

y'

1. Alternative form of a (“the”)
   • 1867, “Prologue”, in CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114:

     To's Excellencie Constantine Harrie Phipps, y' Earle Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant-General and General Governor of Ireland.

     To his Excellency, Constantine Henry Phipps, (the) Earl Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant-General, and Gereral Governor of Ireland.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114