Yo /ˈjoʊ/ is a slang interjection , commonly associated with North American English. It was popularized by the Italian-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1940s. What does the slang word yo mean? Definition of yo (Entry 1 of 2) — used especially to call attention, to indicate attentiveness, or to express affirmation yo. abbreviation. … Read more
Originally from middle english yo, io, ȝo, yeo, yaw, variant forms of ya, ye (“yes, yea”), from Old English ġēa (“yes, yea”), from Proto-Germanic *ja (“yes, thus, so”), from Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European … Read more