jes

See also: Jes, jes', ješ, jeś, jěś, and -jes

English

Adverb

jes (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of just, representing African-American Vernacular English
   • 1885, William Lightfoot Visscher, Black Mammy: A Song of the Sunny South in Three Cantos; and My Village Home‎^[1], page 35:

     Up thoo de lawn an' 'twixt de trees, jes' like a spring-time rivah breeze, dat youngster comes a-troopin' - I think he had de boldes' step a tired infant evah kep', an' nary bit er droopin'.

   • 2021 July 10, Judith Ann McDowell, Fated Memories‎^[2]:

     "We's gwing ter get thoo dis jes fine. De lawd woan gives you mo' dan you kin tek. Jes trust in him, chile, an eve'thing bes awright."

Anagrams

• JSE

Albanian

Alternative forms

• jet, mbes, mbet

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *etja, a denominative of jetë.

Verb

jes (aorist jeta, participle jetë)

1. to remain
2. to exist

Related terms

• jetë

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

Noun

jes (plural jes dem, quantified jes)

1. dress

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English yes. Related to ja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jes/

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• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: jes

Particle

jes

1. yes

   Antonym: ne

   Jes, mi ja parolas Esperanton.

   Yes, I do speak Esperanto.

Derived terms

• jesa
• jese
• jesi
• jesigi
• jeso
• kapjesi
• kapjeso

Descendants

• Ido: yes

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English yes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjes/, [ˈje̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification^(key): jes
• Hyphenation^(key): jes

Interjection

jes! (informal)

1. yes! (used to express pleasure, joy, or great excitement)

   Alternative form: jess

   Synonyms: jee, jipii, oujee

2. all right, I see, okay

   Synonyms: aivan, okei, selvä

Further reading

• “jes”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Kom (Cameroon)

Verb

jes

1. to decay
2. to degrade, to wear out

References

• Randy Jones, Provisional Kom - English lexicon (2001, Yaoundé, Cameroon)

Russenorsk

Etymology 1

From English yes.

Alternative forms

Can be replaced with Russian да (da) (and, probably, Norwegian ja, which is not attested).

Adverb

jes

1. yes

Etymology 2

A result of confusion between English yes and Russian да (da, “yes, and”).

Alternative forms

Can be replaced with Norwegian og and ja or Russian и (i)

Conjunction

jes

1. and

References

• Ingvild Broch; Ernst H. Jahr (1984), Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English yes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jês(ː)/

Interjection

jȅs (Cyrillic spelling је̏с)

1. yes!, yeah! (used to express pleasure, joy, or great excitement)

Etymology 2

Shortened from various inflected forms of bȉti (“to be”).

Verb

jes (Cyrillic spelling јес)

1. (colloquial) alternative form of jest or jeste, often sarcastically as part of the phrase ma jes
   • 1851, D. Ignacio Gjorgji, “Uzdisanje četvàrto”, in Uzdasi mandaljene pokornice u Spili od Marsilje, page 50:

     Sad ti osudi sudom pravim,
     Ako istine jes što u tebi;
     Je li razlog, da ja ostavim
     Za tvé slave slavu od nebi:
     I za siene pustim tvoje,
     Što je istino, što viečno je?

     Now judge with true judgement,
     If there is anything of the truth in you;
     Is it reason, that I leave behind
     Glory from heaven for the sake of your glories:
     And for your shadows let go of
     What is true, what is eternal?

   • 2004, Faruk Šehić, Pod pritiskom: priče, page 21:

     ― Pa jel pretrčo?
     ― Jes.

     ―Well, did he run past?
     ―He did.

2. (colloquial) alternative form of jesi
   • 1848, anonymous (folk song), “Djevojka sama sebe opisuje” in Narodne pjesme, page 325:

     Jesi l’ iš’o u čaršiju?
     Jes’ video list artije?
     Onako je lice moje.

     Have you been to town?
     Have you seen a sheet of paper?
     That’s what my face is like.

   • 2005, Književna revija, volume 45, page 137:

     KARLO (sa smijehom): Mogao bi inspektor da objavi ovo što smo pričali u lokalnim novinama pa da sutra demantira.
     STAJKI: Šta da objavi? Jes ti normalan?

     KARLO (laughing): Maybe the inspector could announce what we’ve been talking about in the local newspapers so that he could deny it tomorrow.
     STAJKI: Announce what? Are you sane?