ja
German (Berlin)
/jaː/
adv
Definitions
- yes; yea, yeah, aye
- (intensifier) obviously; certainly; of course; really; just; as you know; as is generally known
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German ja inherited from Old High German ja, jā (yes) inherited from Proto-Germanic *ja (yes, so, thus) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *yē (already).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*yē
Gloss
already
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Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- yea English
- yea-forsooth English
- yeasay English
- etiam Latin
- iam Latin
- iamdudum Latin
- iampridem Latin
- quoniam Latin
- bejahen German
- je German
- già Italian
- ja Dutch, Flemish
- ja-stem Dutch, Flemish
- ja-stemmer Dutch, Flemish
- jawadde Dutch, Flemish
- jawel Dutch, Flemish
- jawoord Dutch, Flemish
- ya Spanish, Castilian
- *Hyā́m Proto-Indo-European
- *yē Proto-Indo-European
- *yē, *Hyós Proto-Indo-European
- *ja Proto-Germanic
- ju Swedish
- ēow Old English
- ġēa Old English
- ye Middle English
- já Old Norse
- jo Danish
- ja Old French
- ja Esperanto
- ju Esperanto
- ja Catalan, Valencian
- ja Middle Dutch
- ja Old High German
- ja, jā Old High German
- jā Latvian
- ya Ido
- ja Afrikaans
- ja Middle High German
- 𐌾𐌰 Gothic
- יאָ Yiddish
- *jā gmw-pro
- jah Estonian
- *jā Old Dutch
- ja Old Portuguese
- jo Middle Low German
- ja Cimbrian
- ja Alemannic German
- jaa Old Swedish
- ja Slovene
- yá Asturian
- za Friulian
- ia Basque
- jū Vilamovian