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Origin of yes
before 900; Middle English yes, yis, Old English gēse (adv. and noun), probably equivalent to gēa yea + sī be it (present subjunctive singular of bēon to be)
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Example sentences from the Web for yes
These yeses were accompanied by the emphatic tapping on the paper.
The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies|Grace Brooks HillThenceforward his Imperial Highness used to send Zeitz to me whenever he had any yeses or noes.
Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II.|Catherine II, Empress of Russia
British Dictionary definitions for yes
yes
/ (jɛs) /
sentence substitute
used to express acknowledgment, affirmation, consent, agreement, or approval or to answer when one is addressed
used, often with interrogative intonation, to signal someone to speak or keep speaking, enter a room, or do something
noun
an answer or vote of yes
(often plural) a person who votes in the affirmative
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Word Origin for yes
Old English gēse, from iā sīe may it be; see yea
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