zye

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French yeux (“eyes”). In French, the plural word yeux is commonly preceded by a word, such as aux, les or mes, whose final s or x is not pronounced except in front of vowels, where it is pronounced /z/. As a result, yeux was reanalyzed as having /z/ at the front.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /zje/

Noun

zye

  1. eye
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