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Y'all is a contraction of you all.The spelling you-all in second-person plural pronoun usage was first recorded in 1824. [4] [5] The earliest two attestations with the actual spelling y'all are from 1856, [6] and in the Southern Literary Messenger (published in Richmond, Virginia) in 1858. [7]
Yas (/ j ɑː s /), sometimes spelled yass, is a playful or non-serious slang term equivalent to the excited or celebratory use of the interjection Yas was added to Oxford Dictionaries in 2017 and defined as a form of exclamation "expressing great pleasure or excitement". [1]
Hallelujah is a transliteration of Hebrew: הַלְלוּ יָהּ (hallū yāh), which means "praise ye Jah!" (from הַלְלוּ , "praise ye!" [8] and יָהּ , "Jah".) [9] [10] [11] The word hallēl in Hebrew means a joyous praise in song. The second part, Yah, is a shortened form of YHWH (Yahweh or Jehovah in modern English).
Words with specific British English meanings that have different meanings in American and/or additional meanings common to both languages (e.g. pants, cot) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in American and British English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different meaning).
Ya (river), a river in Tynset municipality in Innlandet county, Norway; Yet another (YA), a common initial part of acronyms; YoungArts (YA), a scholarship program for American high school students; A US Navy hull classification symbol: Ash barge (YA)
'Yahweh lives') has the Arabic form Yaḥiyyā (Arabic: يَحِيَّى)., [1] having the same Arabic consonantal text as the name Yahya does. ^ The other Arabic form of the given name John is Yūḥannā يوحنا, which is the form directly derived from the original name, Hebrew : יְהוֹחָנָן .
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Ya, Ia or Ja (Я я; italics: Я я) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, the civil script variant of Old Cyrillic Little Yus (Ѧ ѧ), and possibly Iotated A (Ꙗ ꙗ). Among modern Slavic languages , it is used in the East Slavic languages and Bulgarian .