yas

Significado (Inglés)

mourning

Frecuencia

C1
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/jɑs/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یاس (yâs), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yās (“loss, damage; shame”) (see there for cognates). The semantic development may have been influenced by unrelated Arabic يَأْس (yaʔs, “despair”), whence also the borrowing yeis.

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