yiish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to the Yi language family of Sino-Tibetan languages.
intj
Alternative form of yeesh.
Example Sentences
- "...maps of the following groups: Kam Tai, Miao-Yao, Tibeto-Burman including Yiish, Mongol languages, Turkic languages, and Man-Tungus languages."
- "It deals with syntactic change on a scale comparable to that presupposed by the ST articulation -- and in much the same directions -- that has taken place in a group of languages known in Chana as the "Yi" and in the West as the "Lolo", that form one of the major groupings in the Loloish (or "Yiish") subbranch of TB."
- "I believe that Anong is rather close to Dulong, belonging in the Jingpho subgroup of TB; while Rouruo and Nusu, since they are fairly close to the Yi languages, probably belong in the Yiish (- Loloish) subgroup of TB."
- "Both are closely related to Burmese, and with other languages, are grouped in a Burmish branch, which in turn is closely related to the extensive Yiish group of southwest China and bordering regions."
- "Yiish, talk about tangled grammar."
- "I whisper, “Yiish, if Julie saw that film, she'd dump me for Deward 'Da Lizard' Banksiana.”"
Etymology
From Yi + -ish.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: Yi
Inflected Forms
yiish! (canonical)