yeye
Luba-Kasai edit
Pronoun edit
yeye
Nigerian Pidgin edit
Etymology edit
From Igbo [Term?].
Adjective edit
yeye
- useless, senseless, trivial, bad
- (Can we date this quote?), Anthonia Ujene, “Khalai yan with plant”, in Storybooks African Languages[1]:
- Khalai dey yan to flower wen surround her school. “Abeg oo flower, make grow strong oo so yeye person no go fit enter our school.”
- Khalai talks to the flower around her school. “Please flower, grow strong so bad people won't come into our school.”
Sranan Tongo edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
yeye
Derived terms edit
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Pronoun edit
yeye
- he/she/it/they (singular) (third-person singular pronoun)
See also edit
Swahili personal pronouns (m-wa class(I/II))
Number | Person | Independent | Subject concord | Object concord | Combined forms | Possessive | |||
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affirmative | negative | na | ndi- | si- | |||||
Singular | First | mimi | ni- | si- | -ni- | nami, na mimi | ndimi, ndiye | simi, siye | -angu |
Second | wewe | u- | hu- | -ku- | nawe, na wewe | ndiwe, ndiye | siwe, siye | -ako | |
Third | yeye | a-, yu- | ha-, hayu- | -m-, -mw-, -mu- | naye, na yeye | ndiye | siye | -ake | |
Plural | First | sisi | tu- | hatu- | -tu- | nasi, na sisi | ndisi, ndio | sio | -etu |
Second | ninyi | m-, mw-, mu- | ham-, hamw-, hamu- | -wa- | nanyi, na ninyi | ndinyi, ndio | sinyi, sio | -enu | |
Third | wao | wa- | hawa- | -wa- | nao | ndio | sio | -ao | |
Reflexive | — | — | -ji- | — | — | ||||
For a full table including other classes, see Appendix:Swahili personal pronouns. |
Yoruba edit
Alternative forms edit
- èyé (Èkìtì)
Etymology 1 edit
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
yèyé
Derived terms edit
- yèyé omi (“A general name for female river orisha, A priestess of any one of the river orisha”)
- yèyé Onírá (“A nickname for the orisha Oya”)
- yèyé Ọ̀ṣun (“A priestess of Osun, a nickname for Osun”)
- yèyélúwa (“Queen”)
Etymology 2 edit
Likely from a partial reduplication of *ye (“to be many”). Compare with Olukumi yéye, Itsekiri toye, Igala wéwe, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *yéye, from Proto-Edekiri *yéye, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *wéwe. Also see Ayere yè. iye (“amount, value”) may come from that same *ye root.
Alternative forms edit
- yíye (Èkìtì)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
yéye
Adverb edit
yéye
Determiner edit
yéye