Y: -y, -ish, yahoo, Yahoo, yoni

Y:

The Y section of the dictionary has five pages (vs the z's with four)... 

 y (suffix)

 Yahoo

 Yahweh

 Yahwism

 Yahwistic

 yalmulke

 year

 Yiddish

 Yiddishist

 yogh

 yoni

 yoyo

Other miscellaneous “y” words:

yeshiva

yin (feminine passive principle)

Ymir (Norse God)

Yom Kippur

yurt

Favorite Y word: Yiddishist

-y (suffix):  defined as "ish"

One of my favorite definitions, similar to ‘zig’ being defined as ‘the opposite of zag.’  

          What are other suffixes that denote having the same quality?  One would be the suffix “-esque” as in Romanesque.  The dictionary states that -esque is French, similar to the Italian -esco, the Germanic -isch, the Norse -iskr, Latin -iscus, the Greek -iskos… and of course the English -ish.   It will be fun to find some of these words in other languages. 

   

yahoo: an uncouth person, a brute, a humanoid race.  

If capitalized as "Yahoo," this is from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: a member of a race of brutes who are humanoid; they have the form and all the vices of man.

yoni:  [Sanskrit: vulva]  a Hindu religious symbol of the female genitalia

yo-yo: [from the Philippines]