Where does “Yankspeak” come from?
Yankspeak (English) comes from English Yank, from English yankee, from Dutch Janke, from Dutch Jan, from Norwegian Bokmål Johannes, from Icelandic Jóhannes, from Latin Iōhannēs, from Latin Iōannēs.
Yankspeak (English): The English language as spoken by Americans
Definitions
- The English language as spoken by Americans
Ancestry of “Yankspeak”, step by step
Yankspeak traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Yank
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Yank | A Yankee, a Northerner: someone from the Northern... |
| 2 | English | yankee | A headsail resembling a genoa or a jib but with a... |
| 3 | Dutch | Janke | Little John |
| 4 | Dutch | Jan | — |
| 5 | Norwegian Bokmål | Johannes | John; the name of several figures in the New Testament |
| 6 | Icelandic | Jóhannes | — |
| 7 | Latin | Iōhannēs | — |
| 8 | Latin | Iōannēs | John biblical persons |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | Ἰωάννης | — |
| 10 | Hebrew | יוחנן | Yahweh is gracious |
| 11 | Hebrew | חנון | gracious, merciful, compassionate; passive... |
| 12 | Moroccan Arabic | خنونة | mucus, snot |
| 13 | Arabic | خُنَّة | — |
via English speak
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | speak | To communicate with one's voice, to say words out... |
| 2 | Middle English | speke | — |
| 3 | Old English | specan | Alternative form of sprecan; to speak |
| 4 | Old English | sprecan | to speak, talk |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *sprekan | to speak |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | sprekaną | to speak, to make a noise |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | spreg- | to make a sound, speak; to make a sound, utter,... |