yus · particle1
Dialectal form of yes.
yus · noun2
- Old Church Slavonic · derived fromѫсъ“big yus”
- Russian · derived fromюс
- English todayyus
Russian юс (jus), from Old Church Slavonic ѫсъ (ǫsŭ, “big yus”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
yus
Today it means: Either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet. Full definition →
Russian юс ← Old Church Slavonic ѫсъ