joystick

English

classic joystick from the home computer era

Etymology

From joy +‎ stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

Pronunciation

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Noun

joystick (plural joysticks)

1. A mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer or other equipment.
   • 1989, Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)

     If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.

2. (slang) A penis.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:penis

   • 2015, “Gamez”, performed by Maejor ft. Keri Hilson:

     She playing with my joystick / All in my two seater

Translations

mechanical control device

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: يد‎ f (yadd)

• Azerbaijani: coystik
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 控制桿 (zh), 控制杆 (kòngzhìgǎn), 操縱桿 (zh), 操纵杆 (zh) (cāozònggǎn)

• Czech: joystick m
• Danish: joystick (da) c or n
• Dutch: bedieningshendel m, stuurknuppel (nl), joystick (nl)
• Finnish: sauvaohjain, ohjainsauva; (colloquial) ilotikku (fi), joystick (fi)
• French: manche (fr) m, joystick (fr) m, manche à balai (fr) m, manette (fr) f
• Georgian: ჯოისტიკი (ǯoisṭiḳi), მართვის სახელური (martvis saxeluri)
• German: Steuerknüppel m, Joystick (de) m
• Greek: πηδάλιο (el) n (pidálio)
• Hungarian: botkormány
• Icelandic: stýripinni m, (rare) stýristautur m, (rare) leikvölur m
• Indonesian: tuas kendali

• Italian: barra di comando f
• Japanese: ジョイスティック (joisutikku)
• Korean: 조이스틱 (joiseutik)
• Malay: kayu ria, kayu bedik, کايو ريا‎ (kayu ria)
• Maori: kakautohu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: joystick m

  Nynorsk: joystick m

• Polish: dżojstik m, joystick (pl) m
• Portuguese: manche (pt) m
• Russian: джо́йстик (ru) m (džójstik)
• Serbo-Croatian: džojstik (sh) m
• Spanish: palanca de mando f, joystick m
• Swedish: (computers) joystick (sv) c, styrspak c
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

Verb

joystick (third-person singular simple present joysticks, present participle joysticking, simple past and past participle joysticked)

1. (rare) To manoeuvre by means of a joystick.
   • 2006, Sid Davis, Home makeovers that sell:

     Marketing your home isn't as difficult as joysticking a Mars rover through a crater, despite what many people believe.

   • 2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X

     Therefore, part of the errors in the localization results is due to the problem of joysticking the robot exactly onto the marked positions.

   • 2007, Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Robotics: Science and Systems II

     It can run in autonomous mode or be manually joysticked using a radio controller.

Further reading

• joystick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English joystick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔi̯.stɪk/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: joy‧stick

Noun

joystick m (plural joysticks, diminutive joystickje n)

1. A joystick.
2. A tiller extension.

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Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English joystick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒoi̯stik/, [ˈdʒo̞i̯s̠t̪ik]

Noun

joystick

1. (especially gaming) Synonym of sauvaohjain (“joystick”)

Declension

Inflection of joystick (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		joystick	joystickit
genitive		joystickin	joystickien
partitive		joystickia	joystickeja
illative		joystickiin	joystickeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		joystick	joystickit
accusative	nom.	joystick	joystickit
	gen.	joystickin
genitive		joystickin	joystickien
partitive		joystickia	joystickeja
inessive		joystickissa	joystickeissa
elative		joystickista	joystickeista
illative		joystickiin	joystickeihin
adessive		joystickilla	joystickeilla
ablative		joystickilta	joystickeilta
allative		joystickille	joystickeille
essive		joystickina	joystickeina
translative		joystickiksi	joystickeiksi
instructive		—	joystickein
abessive		joystickitta	joystickeitta
comitative		—	joystickeineen

Possessive forms of joystick (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	joystickini	joystickimme
2nd person	joystickisi	joystickinne
3rd person	joystickinsa

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English joystick.

Noun

joystick m (invariable)

1. joystick (device)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English joystick

Noun

joystick m (definite singular joysticken, indefinite plural joysticker, definite plural joystickene)

1. a joystick

References

• “joystick” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “joystick” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English joystick

Noun

joystick m (definite singular joysticken, indefinite plural joystickar, definite plural joystickane)

1. a joystick

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English joystick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoisˈtik/, [t͡ʃoi̯sˈt̪ik]

Noun

joystick m (plural joysticks)

1. joystick

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.