yako

See also: yakō, -yakö, and ya'ko

Baoule

Noun

yako

1. my deepest sympathy Used to show one´s compassion during bereavement
2. sorry To someone who had an accident, who falls, who got injured, in other words, someone who is affected by an unhappy situation.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English yak +‎ -o, from Tibetan གཡག (g.yag), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-jak ~ g-jaŋ.

Noun

yako (plural yaki)

1. yak

Japanese

Romanization

yako

1. Rōmaji transcription of やこ

Mapudungun

Adjective

yako (Raguileo spelling)

1. lukewarm

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Swahili

Adjective

yako

1. Mi class inflected form of -ako.
2. Ma class inflected form of -ako.
3. N class inflected form of -ako (singular only).

Derived terms

• habari yako (“how are you”, literally “your news”)

Verb

yako

1. ma class_(VI) positive degree present of -wako (“it is (around there), they are (around there)”)

Woiwurrung

Noun

yako

1. yawn

References

• Barry J. Blake, Woiwurrung, in The Aboriginal Language of Melbourne and Other Sketches (1991; edited by R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake; OUP, Handbook of Australian Languages 4), pages 31–124