{"id":24551,"date":"2026-04-04T15:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24551"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:56:34","slug":"yexing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24551","title":{"rendered":"Yexing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you <strong>yexed<\/strong> recently? If you have, what did you do to stop your <strong>yexes<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tiwonge\/2537035704\/in\/photolist-4pUdwU-2mQiY8L-2rUTLUp-4SbYjU-7oSAe1-23A6X6-23YrSdU-7wYZFY-2mrVjif-2mgpBft-bpE6F9-8W4GpY-4tq9SB-2q9ev1g-2bxDEP4-aWPHBc-wYbFU-w1CLgy-CDCUxY-7EecGH-Sa29F-bpE3kE-7qZYHT-FMdNPg-Sa2a2-5gVks1-2h6NhfY-2p3z6SD-8BJcgD-2h6Ngvg-3wTj4-2h6MG7n-2h6NsfD-2h6LrPJ-2gAD1NY-2gADBAE-2gAD1iu-bxbZLz-FAan5-J5H6Mn-2h6Lri8-2h6MFSE-2h6NsoQ-2h6ML1e-2h6NqSZ-2h6NtL9-2h6NtHD-2h6Npjy-2h6NuiM\" title=\"Hiccough\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3256\/2537035704_fa3af7a652_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Hiccough\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>yex<\/strong> [j\u025bks] sounds like a made-up word you might find in a children&#8217;s book or linguistic experiment &#8211; the wug is yexing, yesterday it yex__. However, it is, in fact, a genuine English word, though archaic. As a noun, it means a <strong>hiccough \/ hiccup<\/strong>, <strong>belch<\/strong> or <strong>burp<\/strong>, and as a verb, it means <strong>to hiccough, belch or burp<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/yex#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The verb <strong>to yex<\/strong> comes from Middle English <em>yexen<\/em> [\u02c8j\u025bks\u0259n] (to hiccough, belch, yawn, gulp, swallow convulsively, gasp, sob) from Old English <em>\u0121iscian<\/em> [\u02c8jis.ki.\u0251n] (to sigh, sob), from Proto-West Germanic <em>*gisk\u014dn<\/em> (to gasp, yawn, gulp), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*\u01f5eys-<\/em> (gaping, cracked)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/yex#Etymology_1\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The noun <strong>yex<\/strong> comes from Middle English <em>yexe \/ \u021d(e)oxe<\/em> (the condition of having the hiccoughs), from Old English <em>\u0121eocsa<\/em> [\u02c8jes.k\u0251] (sobbing, hiccough), which comes from the same roots as the verb [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/yex#Etymology_2\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same roots include <strong>ye(e)sk<\/strong> (a hiccough, belch, the hiccoughs) and <strong>to yesk<\/strong> (to hiccough, belch, vomit) in Scots [<a href=\"https:\/\/dsl.ac.uk\/entry\/snd\/yesk\">source<\/a>], and <strong>yux<\/strong> (to sob, weep loudly) in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yola_dialect\">Yola<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/yux#Yola\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Blog horizontal --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1685480124\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you yexed recently? If you have, what did you do to stop your yexes? The word yex [j\u025bks] sounds like a made-up word you might find in a children&#8217;s book or linguistic experiment &#8211; the wug is yexing, yesterday it yex__. However, it is, in fact, a genuine English word, though archaic. As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,26,33,45,202,55,78,595],"tags":[164,158,600,601,138,281,596,163,598,599,597],"class_list":["post-24551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-west-germanic","category-scots","category-words-and-phrases","category-yola","tag-english","tag-etymology","tag-hiccough","tag-hiccup","tag-language","tag-omniglot","tag-scots","tag-words","tag-yex","tag-yexing","tag-yola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24551"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24557,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551\/revisions\/24557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}