yea!とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: yā, IPA: /jeɪ/
  • 韻: -eɪ
  • 異形同音異義語: yay, Ye
• (obsolete) enPR: yī, IPA: /jiː/
• (Early Modern) IPA: /jiː/, /jɛː/

副詞

yea (not comparable) (dated)

1. Yes, indeed.
   • 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum

     Yea, and the prophet of the heav'nly lyre, / Great Solomon sings in the English quire […]

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     Let no man say that the Devil is not a cruel tyrant. He may give his folk some scrapings of unhallowed pleasure, but he will exact tithes, yea, of anise and cummin, in return, and there is aye the reckoning to pay at the hinder end.

   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 120:

     Something of the curate's aptitude for abasement came to him at that moment, and he wept, yea, holding with both hands to Miss Gimblet, in his grief he wept aloud, while Miss Gimblet wiped his countenance with her handkerchief and wept a little, too.

2. (Midwestern American English) Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture by way of measurement).

   "The pony was about yea high," he explained, holding out his hand, palm down, roughly level with his chin.

同意語

• (yes): aye, yep, yes, yup, yeah, yigh (when contradicting)

反意語

• nay
• no

接続詞

yea

1. (archaic) Or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
   • 1604, Jeremy Corderoy, A Short Dialogve, wherein is Proved, that No Man can be Saved without Good VVorkes, 2nd edition, Oxford: Printed by Ioseph Barnes, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crowne, by Simon Waterson, →OCLC, page 40:

     [N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]

     • (with modern spelling) [N]ow such a life ungodly, without a care of doing the will of the Lord (though they profess him in their mouths, yea though they believe and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea have knowledge of the Scriptures) yet if they live ungodly, they deny God, and therefore shall be denied
   • c. 1633, John Donne, The Flea:

     O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
     Where we almost, yea, more than married are.

間投詞

yea

1. (in some dialects of American English, including Southern, Western, and African American Vernacular) Yeah, right, yes.

名詞

yea (plural yeas)

1. An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken

   Antonym: nay

   • 2009 January 6, “Still Broken After All These Years”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 26 January 2018:

     Recently senators could fax in their yeas or nays to the committee chairman.

語源 2

From yeah.

発音

• IPA: /ˈjɛ(ə)/, /ˈjæ(ə)/
• 韻: -ɛə

間投詞

yea

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative spelling of yeah.

語源 3

See yay.

発音

• enPR: yā, IPA: /jeɪ/

間投詞

yea

1. Misspelling of yay.

参照

アナグラム

• Aye, aye, yae