English
Etymology 1
Dialectual form of yes.
Adverb
yus
- Dialectual form of yes.
#* 1892 CE: from Punch, or The London Charivari
#*: Yus, to live in dirt, I feel is a `orrid degradation; but one thing I'd like to know, is it wus than living on it?
#* 1922 CE: Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, compilers and editors, The Best British Short Stories of 1922
#*: Wych Street? Yus, of course I knoo Wych Street. Used to go there with some of the boys -- when I was Covent Garden way.
Etymology 2
wikipedia
Russian ��, from Old Church Slavonic ѫ��, big yus
Letter
yus
- Either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet. Modern languages thus have little yus for them.
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