yes的词源

英文词源

yes

yes: [OE] Yes is descended from Old English gese. It is thought that this was a compound formed from gēa ‘yes’ (ancestor of archaic English yea and related to German and Dutch ja ‘yes’) and sīe, the third-person present singular subjunctive of be, and that it therefore originally meant literally ‘yes, may it be so’. It was at first used as a response to negative questions, while yea was used for positive questions, but around the end of the 16th century this distinction began to disappear, and yea has since died out.
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yes (adv.)

Old English gise, gese "so be it!," probably from gea, ge "so" (see yea) + si "be it!," third person imperative of beon "to be" (see be). Originally stronger than simple yea. Used in Shakespeare mainly as an answer to negative questions. As a noun from 1712. Yes-man is first recorded 1912, American English.

中文词源

yes：是

来自古英语gese,就是这样，ge-,是，词源同yea,se-,如此，词源同so.

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：yes 词源，yes 含义。

yes：是，是的

yes源于古英语gese，而gese则是gēa（yea的原型，与德语、荷兰语的ja 'yes'有亲缘关系）和sīe（动词be的现在时第三人称单数虚拟式）两者合成的复合词，故其字面义原为“Yes, may it be so.”yes起初用作对否定句的回答，而yea则用以回应肯定句。但约在16世纪末这一区别开始消失，yea的这一用法也从此被废弃，在现代英语中yea一词只作名词用，指“赞成票”，和nay（反对票）相对应。

yes通常是表示赞成的感叹语，有时可用作名词，意思是表示同意。它的复数形式相当少见，但在一些知名作家的作品中确实可以见到。《牛津英语词典》引用了萨克雷（Thackeray）和梅里狄斯（Meredith）的例子，他们两人都用了复数形式“yeses”。

英语另有一词yeah和yes虽为同义词，但仅在口语中使用。yeah可能源自德语、荷兰语的ja 'yes'，与yea有亲缘关系。

yes：是

来自古英语 gese,就是这样，来自 ge-,是，词源同 yea,se-,如此，词源同 so.