By its nature, yea would, in this sense, be more spoken than written. It may well have been widespread before , but not found in any printed document. Yes, I realise this is a terribly old question. NOAD defines yay as follows: yay adv. NOAD's entry for yea includes: used for emphasis, esp. But perhaps the most interesting part of that entry is the source note accompanying it: yea big, yea high 1 This big, or this high, accompanied with the spreading of the hands to indicate the size; very large or high, overwhelmingly large or tall.
Update April 10, An Elephind newspaper database search turns up several additional matches from the middle s. First, from an advertisement for Jack Wimmer's Sunoco station in the [State College, Pennsylvania] Daily Collegian November 10, : If you are going to use snow tires this semester, won't you please get them on soon? Or—if you already have tires, we'll be glad to put them on for you.
Just so you have them on before the snow gets yea high. Sven Yargs Sven Yargs k 30 30 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. It's a deictic term -- which must be accompanied by a hand gesture, surely an unusual feature -- that's mentioned in Fillmore's Deixis Lectures. His extreme example of a sentence with no deictic anchoring is Meet me here tomorrow at the same time with a stick about yea long , on a note found in a bottle in the Pacific ocean.
Robbie Goodwin Robbie Goodwin 2, 1 1 gold badge 8 8 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Richard Holmes Richard Holmes 11 1 1 bronze badge. Bob Bob 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Yeh means "this" in hindi, pronounced Yaeh. I'm thinking it comes from there? Prianka Prianka Interesting idea, though it seems unlikely to me that America would have co-opted a Hindi term as a post-war slang usage. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Related 0. Hot Network Questions.
In the northeast is seen the yay , Niltci, who accompanied the Navajo prophet to the home of the snakes. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for yay on Thesaurus.
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