noun
yat
noun
1
A letter of the old Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets, no longer used in modern spelling.
"Pre-revolutionary Russian spelling still used the yat in many words."
2
A distinctive New Orleans English accent, or a person who speaks with it.
"His thick Yat accent gave away that he grew up in the Ninth Ward."
How to Use Yat
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishEither an obsolete Slavic letter, or the working-class New Orleans accent/dialect (named from the greeting "where y'at?").
Word Forms
yats plural, Yats plural
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Etymology
Borrowed from a Slavic language; compare Russian ять (jat').