yeye
Luba-Kasai
editPronoun
edityeye
Nigerian Pidgin
editEtymology
editAdjective
edityeye
- 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
editEtymology
editProbably from Fon yɛ̀ (“shadow, spirit”).[1]
Noun
edityeye
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Norval Smith (2009) “A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creoles”, in P. Muysken, N. Smith, editors, Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 475.
Swahili
editPronunciation
editPronoun
edityeye
- he/she/it/they (singular) (third-person singular pronoun)
See also
editSwahili personal pronouns (m-wa class(I/II))
Number | Person | Independent | Subject concord | Object concord | Combined forms | Possessive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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
editAlternative forms
edit- èyé (Èkìtì)
Etymology 1
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editNoun
edityèyé
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
editLikely 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
editNoun
edityéye
Adverb
edityéye
Determiner
edityéye
Categories:
- Luba-Kasai lemmas
- Luba-Kasai pronouns
- Nigerian Pidgin terms borrowed from Yoruba
- Nigerian Pidgin terms derived from Yoruba
- Nigerian Pidgin lemmas
- Nigerian Pidgin adjectives
- Nigerian Pidgin terms with quotations
- Sranan Tongo terms derived from Fon
- Sranan Tongo lemmas
- Sranan Tongo nouns
- Swahili terms with audio pronunciation
- Swahili lemmas
- Swahili pronouns
- Yoruba terms with IPA pronunciation
- Yoruba lemmas
- Yoruba nouns
- Yoruba terms inherited from Proto-Yoruba
- Yoruba terms derived from Proto-Yoruba
- Yoruba terms inherited from Proto-Edekiri
- Yoruba terms derived from Proto-Edekiri
- Yoruba terms inherited from Proto-Yoruboid
- Yoruba terms derived from Proto-Yoruboid
- Yoruba adverbs
- Yoruba determiners
- Ondo Yoruba
- Ilajẹ Yoruba
- Ijẹbu Yoruba
- Ọwọ Yoruba
- Eastern Akoko Yoruba
- Ikalẹ Yoruba
- Ekiti Yoruba
- Yagba Yoruba