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Yezo

Yezo proper noun: dated spelling of Ezo.

Proper noun

Yezo

  1. Dated spelling of Ezo.

Origin of Yezo

From Japanese 蝦夷 (Ezo). The initial y- (also found in Yedo, Yemishi, etc.) resulted from the merging between え (e) and 𛀁 (ye) into the latter in the 10th century CE.

Phrases with Yezo

Questions about Yezo

What does Yezo mean?
Yezo means dated spelling of Ezo.
What part of speech is Yezo?
Yezo is a proper noun.

Words near Yezo in the dictionary

  1. Yezidees
  2. Yezidi
  3. Yezidis
  4. Yezidism
  5. Yezidology
  6. Yezo
  7. Yezo spruce
  8. Yezo spruces
  9. yezzy
  10. yf
  11. yFBD

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Yezo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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