yes; okay; understood, got it; here, present; right, so (agreement); uh-huh (acknowledgement that one is listening) · no (in response to negative questions); agree · sorry? (What did you say?)
eş: ああ, うん, しかり, 応
zıt: いいえ, ううん
köken: Ultimate derivation currently unknown, with various resources listing no etymology. Theories include: * Perhaps related to interjection は (ha, “yes”), which first appears in the early 1600s. * Alternatively, may perhaps from Sino-Japanese 拝 (hai), but this theory is not academically accepted. First cited as a general shout in the early 1600s (compare English hey), with the affirmative yes sense…
used to direct horses to move forward; giddyup; hyah
eş: naprzód
zıt: prr, tprrruu
köken: Probably a relic imperative of Polish wiać (“to run, to flee”), analogical to unrelated Bulgarian дий (dij). Alternately a colloquial variation of the imperative of Polish wieźć (“to drive, to carry on a cart or a wagon”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vezti.