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yox

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Yoron.

yox (third-person singular simple present yoxes, present participle yoxing, simple past and past participle yoxed)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of yex (“hiccup”).
    • 1933, Medical Life, volume 40, page 544:
      Yoxing (or hiccoughing) is the sound in the nose of violent moving of the stomach and comes of a crampy disposition of the stomach with two principal causes

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yōk (“there is not”).[1] Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰸 (yok), Turkish yok etc.

yox

  1. antonym of var (“there is, there are, there exists, there exist”): there is no, there are no, there does not exist, there do not exist
  2. antonym of var (“to have”): to not have
    Ayağı yoxdur, qaçır; qanadı yoxdur, uçur.
    It has no legs/feet, [but] it runs; it has no wings, [but] it flies (a traditional riddle).
    Deyəcək bir sözün yoxundursa, get.
    If you don't have anything to say, then leave.

yox

  1. (colloquial) no
    Antonym:
    Cavab ver işimizi bilək, hə yoxsa yox?
    Give an answer so we know, yes or no?
  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*jōk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

yox

  1. Verbal stem occurring in the following root, aspect, and mode combinations:
Aspect Imperfective Perfective Future Optative
Reversitative yo (sg. goes) yo (sg. goes) yo (sg. goes)
Persistive yo (sg. goes) yo (sg. goes) yo (sg. goes) yo (sg. goes)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *yōk (“there is not”).

yox

  1. poor

yox

  1. there is not, absent

yox

  1. green