Aya vs Ava - What's the difference?
aya | ava |
(archaic, dialect, New England) yes; yea; aye.
* 1938 , Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts , Coward-McCann and Samuel French (1965), ISBN 0743223136:
*:“The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”
* 2001 , David McCullough, John Adams , Simon & Schuster (2001), ISBN 0573613494:
*:“And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”
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. Popular in the 2000s in all English-speaking countries.
* 1881 Mary E. Jackson: The Spy of Osawatomie; or, The Mysterious Companions of Old John Brown , W.S.Bryan 1881, page 57
* 2004 Gayle Brandeis, The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel , HarperCollins, ISBN 0060528044, page 5
A city in Illinois.
A city in Missouri.
A town in New York.
An unincorporated community in Ohio.
English palindromes
As nouns the difference between aya and ava
is that aya is alternative form of lang=en while ava is alternative form of lang=en.As proper nouns the difference between aya and ava
is that aya is in Akkadian mythology, a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash while Ava is {{given name|female|from=Germanic|}}. Popular in the 2000s in all English-speaking countries.As an adverb aya
is yes; yea; aye.aya
English
Adverb
(-)ava
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Ava Haynes, the oldest daughter, was a warm friend of Lillie Calhoun, whom she soon sought and led quickly into the conservatory.
- My mother named me Ava because she liked how the English letters looked - the big A a beak pointed upward, the v a sharp slash of wings, the small a round and flat as a parrot's eye.
