Y'allとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• ya’ll, yall, yo'll, yoll, you-all, you all

語源

Contraction of you all, and/or from Scots ye aw. Attested since at least 1631.

Compare Dutch jullie (originally jij lui (字義どおりに “you people”)) for a similar development of a new plural pronoun out of Proto-Germanic *jīz that originally was already plural.

発音

• IPA^(key): /jɔl/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /jɑl/
• 韻: -ɔːl
• Homophone: yawl

代名詞

y'all (second-person 複数形 nominative または objective, possessive determiner y'all's, possessive pronoun y'all's, 再帰的用法 y'allselves)

1. (now chiefly Southern US, African-American Vernacular, New York Latino English, Appalachia, Caribbean, Indian South African English) plural of you
   • 1631, William Lisle, The Faire Æthiopian:

     [...] and this y'all know is true, [...]

   • 1987, Judson D. Hale, The education of a Yankee: an American memoir, page 3:

     Much later, after dozens of the men had come up to me to shake my hand (with both of theirs) and say "Y'all come back soon, hear? ...

   • 2007, Roy Blount, Long time leaving: dispatches from up South, page 117:

     People in the South do indeed seem to be addressing a single person as "y'all." For instance, a restaurant patron might ask a waiter, "What y'all got for dessert tonight?" In that case, "y'all" refers collectively to the people who run the restaurant.

使用する際の注意点

• The form y'all is heard primarily in the Southern United States, and nationwide in AAVE. It is also found among Indian speakers of South African English, and parts of the Carribean. Recently, the form has begun to be used by other American English speakers, as well, and even non-American English speakers to a lesser extent, though still less commonly than you guys.^[2] For other second-personal plural pronouns, see you.
• In the past, y'all was never used as a proper singular, but it may have been used with an implied plural, e.g. "you [and your team]," "you [and your coworkers]," "you [and your family]." Due to a cultural shift in the United States by non-Southerners using the word, it is now rarely also used as a singular you,^[3] although most (increasing) non-Southern / non-AAVE use is, like Southern and AAVE use, plural.^[2]
• Notwithstanding its etymology, the all in y'all is merely a plural marker, not a quantifier. Thus, just as us may refer either to some of us or all of us in standard English, y'all may refer either to some of y'all or to all [of] y'all.
• Y'all is not considered informal speech, but is also not considered formal -- You all would, to a few, be considered more formal, but is not required in formal situations nor is it encouraged.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:y'all

派生語

• fuck y'all
• y'all means all
• Y'all Qaeda

関連する語

• y'all's (possessive)
• all y'all (definitely plural)
• y'all two, y'all three, etc
• ya'll
• y'awl
• allyou
• ya
• d'y'all

動詞

y'all (三人称単数 現在形 y'alls, 現在分詞 y'alling, 過去形および過去分詞形 y'alled)

1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To use the pronoun "y'all" (to).
   • 1971, Frank Deford, There she is: the life and times of Miss America:

     She blithely maintained that she could have smiled magnolias and "y'alled" her way out of any tight spots.

   • 1990, Paul Levy, Finger lickin' good: a Kentucky childhood:

     With his swarthy complexion and jet black, straight hair, Louis was actually quite dashing. He wore his expensively cut clothes and heavy rings well, too. Besides his short stature, his most noticeable peculiarity was that he had a voice like Lytton Strachey's, which moved alarmingly, in the middle of a sentence, or sometimes halfway through a word, from a booming bass to the high-pitched, almost whistling soprano of a boy whose voice has not yet broken. As he y'alled and drawled ...

   • 1997, Terence Sieg, Golf travel's guide to the world's greatest golf destinations: the ultimate resource for the discriminating golfer:

     Indeed, non-Southerners may feel themselves "y'alled" to death down here, yet even the most stony- faced New Englander will be charmed by the warmth of the Cloister's staff. The tradition of service is simply better and more deeply entrenched in the South than in any other region of the United States.

限定詞

y'all

1. The group spoken or written to.

   Have y'all ladies finished eating?

2. (especially African-American Vernacular) Your pl; y'all's

   I need y'all help for a minute.

参照

アナグラム

• -ally, Ally, Lyla, ally

短縮形

ya'll

1. Pronunciation spelling of you'll.
   • 1857, Barry Alan Grael, work based on Dion Boucicault's play, The Streets of New York [1], page 70:

     Don't go in, ya'll only make thins worse.

   • 1886, in Good Words for 1886, Donald MacLeod (editor), page 201:

     Yis, yis; ya'll be forced, or else ya'll tak t' luck awaäy wi' ya, an' that wad niver deä.

   • 1921, Robert Norwood, Bill Boram, page 52

     Bill's spilin' for a fight, / An' one o' these black God-forgotten days / He'll let tha devil tap 'im on tha shoulder, / An' then ya'll see what happens.

   • 1985, V.C. Andrews, Heaven‎^[2], →ISBN, page 243:

     Ya'll like that. Ya'll come out smellin like a rose, looking like one, too.

   • 2002, Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats, page 24:

     Ya'll only ever be Xavier Cassidy's work horse. He won't treat ya right.

   • 2006, J. R. Reynolds, Sustenance of Courage, page 281:

     But then ya'll only have two oxen if ya do that, Mrs. Burt.

語源 2

Spelling perhaps influenced by you'll.

代名詞

ya'll

1. Alternative spelling of y'all (especially in AAVE).
   • 1985, Barbara Savage, Miles from Nowhere, page 89:

     So ya'll need a place to camp do ya?

   • 1987, Beth Henley, The Lucky Spot, page 20:

     Ya'll all gotta look real beautiful for tonight.

   • 1999, Connie Rose Porter, Imani All Mine, page 207:

     Ya'll folk forget about the street number.

   • 2000, Frankie Avalon Wolfe, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Being Vegetarian, page 308:

     Hinduism — Ya’ll Come Back Now

   • 2004, James E. Pittman, The Way We See It: Expressed through poetry and rhyme from friends and family, page 35:

     Ya’ll don’t know bout the Souf, fah real // Let me tell ya’ll how it be.

   • 2004, Ronald Everett Capps, Off Magazine Street, page 291:

     Then, when ya'll were young, ya'll probably learned a lot about manners and how to act, didn't ya'll?

   • 2005, Jimmie, Life, Death And Sex In Prison, page 21:

     “I’m Lieutenant Bunger. Ya’ll do exactly as I or any other uniformed officer here tells you to do, whenever he wants ya’ll to do it. Ifen ya’ll don’t do it quickly enough and the way we tell ya’ll to do it, we’ll march ya’ll right to the fuckin’ ‘hole’. For you new inmates […] I mean solitary confinement. We don’t fuck aroun’ with ya’ll here. Ifen ya’ll don’t listen to what we tells yoh, ya’ll be in the ‘hole’ until ya’ll get as blind as a bat from the dark. Right now ya’ll are goin’ to ‘B’ house where ya’ll have a place to sleep this night”.