与ヽ余ヽ

Old Japanese

Interjection

与ヽ余ヽ (yoyoyoyo)

1. a 囃子詞 (hayashikotoba)
   • 981, Kinkafu, Ise no Kami Uta

     佐者可流於保比留女乃佐支川可比与ヽ余ヽ佐支川可比佐支川可比伊久也奈支伊久也奈支佐支川可比

     sabakaru opopirume no sakitukapi yoyoyoyo sakitukapi sakitukapi iku yanagi iku yanagi sakitukapi

     She turns there; the great woman of the day's forerunner; yoyoyoyo; the forerunner, the forerunner, the living willow tree, the living willow tree, the forerunner.

References

• Koten Hozonkai Hen (1928) 琴歌譜 [Sheets of music played on harps], →DOI, page 13
• Omodaka, Hisataka (1967) 時代別国語大辞典 上代編 [The dictionary of historical Japanese: Old Japanese] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN, page 803

Further reading

• “よよ‐よよ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) ‎^[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)