yigh
/jaɪ/
yigh interjection: yes, used when contradicting.
Interjection
- Yes, used when contradicting.
- But, of course, both yigh and nay operate typically across sentence or utterance boundaries between two speakers, as: Person A. /a kɔɵnt dʏː ɪt/ ‘I can’t do it.’ Person B. /jaɪ ðɛ kɔn/ ‘Yigh (oh yes), thou can!’1999, Graham Shorrocks, A Grammar of the Dialect of the Bolton Area (University of Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics; 42), part II (Morphology and Syntax), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, →ISBN...
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Questions about yigh
- What does yigh mean?
- Yigh means yes, used when contradicting.
- What part of speech is yigh?
- Yigh is an interjection.
- How do you pronounce yigh?
- Yigh is pronounced /jaɪ/.
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