yeyé

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English yeah-yeah. Compare to go-go, of contemporary coinage.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝeˈʝe/ [ɟ͡ʝeˈʝe]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝeˈʝe/ [ɟ͡ʝeˈʝe]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃeˈʃe/ [ʃeˈʃe]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒeˈʒe/ [ʒeˈʒe]

• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ye‧yé

Noun

yeyé m (plural yeyés)

1. yé-yé

Further reading

• “yeyé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10