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Ayo vs Aya - What's the difference?

ayo | aya |

Aya is a related term of ayo.



As nouns the difference between ayo and aya

is that ayo is a strategy game while aya is alternative form of lang=en.

As an interjection ayo

is a greeting.

As an adverb aya is

yes; yea; aye.

As a proper noun Aya is

in Akkadian mythology, a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash.

ayo

English

Etymology 1

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • (AAVE, informal) A greeting.
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    • Synonyms
    * (greeting) hey, hi, yo

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

  • (West African English) A strategy game.
    • Synonyms
    * (strategy game) oware, awari

    See also

    * (Oware) ----

    aya

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Adverb

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  • (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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