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As I am solidly a millenial, I guess I'll take it that I'm keeping hip to the lingo of kids these days :) My definition of "Yeet" is to fling/throw/hurl someth
by kortex 5y ago
As I am solidly a millenial, I guess I'll take it that I'm keeping hip to the lingo of kids these days :)
My definition of "Yeet" is to fling/throw/hurl something, typically with great vigor. Urban Dictionary defines it as "To discard an item at a high velocity." Derives from the Latin Iacio, From Proto-Italic jakjō, from Proto-Indo-European (H)yeh₁- ("to throw, let go"). JK I just made that up, but it's actually plausible.
Never heard the "exclamation of excitement" definition.
- dataflow 5y agoHahaha I see, thanks. It reminds me of defenestration!
- jszymborski 5y agoAlso worth mentioning that the past tense of yeet is widely agreed to be yote or yoted as in: "The first empty soda can was yote many moons ago"
- rackjack 5y ago"widely agreed upon" is debated. According to Wiktionary: "yeeted 1. simple past tense and past participle of yeet" [1] Worth noting there is a fair amount of discussion on whether the past tense is "yeeted" or "yote", or even "yaught": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:yeet https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:yeet See also: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/28300/what-is-the-past-tense-of-yeet https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/28300/what-i... [1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yeeted#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yeeted#English (I do think it would be pretty funny if the past tense ended up as "yote", though.)
- kortex 5y agoThe ablaut conjugation yeet/yote/yitten is hilarious and gets my vote but it seems like yeeted will win out.
- FridgeSeal 5y agoI particularly enjoy “yote” as it sounds so formal/medieval.
- collegeburner 5y agoNahh it's definitely yeeted.
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoI've never seen a zoomer say yote. Yeeted on the other hand...
- JCharante 5y agoI've seen and heard yoted many times before, because double past tensening a word adds comedic effect.
- duskwuff 5y agoFrom another milliennial: the only detail I'd add is that "yeet" is less about pure force and more about the impulsive, imprecise nature of the action. Throwing a basketball into a hoop wouldn't be described as "yeeting", except perhaps if it were by complete accident.
- tome 5y agoA derivation from iacio via jettison doesn't sound too implausible.
- StavrosK 5y ago> Derives from the Latin Iacio, From Proto-Italic jakjō, from Proto-Indo-European (H)yeh₁- ("to throw, let go"). JK I just made that up, but it's actually plausible. I think you're way overestimating the people who come up with new words :P