yighとは 意味・読み方・使い方

間投詞

yigh

1. (UK, dialect, Lancashire) Yes, used when contradicting.
   • 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, page 206:

     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!’

使用する際の注意点

Graham Shorrocks compares the Lancastrian word yigh to the German doch or the French si.

Joseph Wright classified yigh as a variant of yea. In addition to Lancashire, Wright lists yigh for west Yorkshire, Hampshire and the North Country.

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