ayo

• IPA^(key): /eɪoʊ/

ayo

1. (African American Vernacular, informal) A greeting.
   • 2004, Michael Daniel Baptiste, Cracked Dreams, page 73:

     "Ayo, Red. It's the homie Spits on the jack for you, blood." "Ayo, homeboy," said Red as he excitedly picked up the telephone receiver. "What's up, fool?"

   • 2007, Reginald L. Hall, In Love with a Thug, page 38:

     “Ayo, wassup, girl,” he said to Keisha as he continued to walk toward the back area where I stood. […] “Ayo, wassup, playa?

   • 2007, Tony J. Ward, Jr., I've Got to Make It to Heaven for Going Through Hell: Part 1, page 39:

     Ayo Toine, you think they'd put me down?

   • 2007, Nikki Turner, Christmas in the Hood, page 289:

     "Ayo, fam, you a'ight down there?" Victorious's cell mate asked.

   • 2008, Treasure Hernandez, Resurrection, page 106:

     "Ayo, ma, where you going?" a dude asked her as she walked by him.

   • 2008, Ashley JaQuavis, The Trophy Wife, page 103:

     "Ayo, Kalil!" a man's voice said from amidst the crowd. Kalil looked up and saw his lil' man, Peanut, distributing packets of heroin and taking money from the fiends.

   • 2010, R Green Damon, Somethin' to Think about, page 197:

     "Ayo, Cee, listen to this shit here," said Matt, passing him his cell.

• (greeting): hey, hi, yo

Yoruba [Term?]

ayo (uncountable)

1. (West African English) A strategy game.

• (strategy game): oware, awari

• Oware on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Yao

ayo (inanimate)

1. Obsolete spelling of āyoh

ayô

1. a pet name
2. bargain, discount

ayô

1. to ask or request

ayo

1. come on!

• ayó (alternative spelling)

From Spanish adiós and Portuguese adeus.

ayo

1. goodbye
2. farewell

ayo m (plural ayos, feminine aya, feminine plural ayas)

1. Obsolete spelling of aio

Presumed to be from the unattested Gothic *𐌷𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰 (*hagja), or from Latin avia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɟ͡ʝo/, [ˈaʝo]

ayo m (plural ayos, feminine aya, feminine plural ayas)

1. Person who takes care of children; tutor

• “ayo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

ayo

1. river; stream; brook

ayo

1. joy

ayo

1. river

• Prehistoria: Lenguas y dialectos indigenas de Colombia (Luis Duque Gómez, ‎Sergio Elías Ortiz, 1965), citing Romero's wordlist