यों

See also: यो, यूँ, यी, या, , and ये

Hindi

Alternative forms

  • यूँ (yū̃), यूं (yū̃) (misspelling)pronunciation spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi यूं (yūṃ),[1] from Apabhramsa एउं (euṃ), a variant of एम (ema), एम्व (emva), a contraction of Prakrit एमेव (emeva), itself a contraction of एवमेव (evameva), from Sanskrit एवम् एव (evam eva).[2] Ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háywas, from Proto-Indo-European *óywos. Cognate with Gujarati એમ (ema, thus), Punjabi ਐਵੇਂ (aivẽ, thus). Doublet of इमि (imi) and related to अब (ab).

Adverb

यों • () (Urdu spelling یوں)[3]

  1. thus
  2. actually
    यों हीjust like that; for no reason

Coordinate terms

References

  1. ^ Jaroslav Strnad (2013), Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 284
  2. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “evaṃ eva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “यों”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press