yah

Sometimes she also uttered a cry which she had picked up somewhere: a kind of 'Yah!'

"What do you mean by 'yah'?"

"Well, you've got about ten seconds to try,' he said "The dragons-' 'Yah?'

"Yah--" "Why did you leave us?"

'Yah. . . right.'

Nothing against him, but if I hear 'Yah Mo B There' one more time, I'm gonna 'yah mo' burn this place to the ground!"

Charles was chanting again now and his mother could hear syllables that sounded like 'Yi nash Yog Sothoth he lgeb throdag' - ending in a 'Yah!'

Gavin and Deedee led them in a round of 'Kum Ba Yah' while from across the darkened meadow came laughter and the taped sounds of Billy Idol singing 'Eyes without a Face.'

In fact, 'have a nice day' was originally coined as a deliberately longer and more personal message to have ringing in customers' ears just as they walked off the premises, instead of the terminal 'bye'or 'see yah', so they'd come back.

And as the only one in my flat of eight without a 'gap yah' behind me or a private school on my personal statement, perhaps I would have fitted in better in the cheaper halls - the boys were better looking there anyway...

Another popular contraction is Yah'shua with the apostrophe ( ' ) serving as a division to emphasise the "Yah" aspect of the name and the Hebrew shua (salvation), found in the Natural Israelite Bible, English Version.

These names were: Jared, Abi Gedor, Ḥeber, Abi Soko, Jekuthiel, Abi Zanoah, and Shemaiah ("Shama 'Yah" meaning "God has heard"), the last one being given to him by Israel.