The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
YUS
Etymology 1
Adverb
yus
(dialectal) Alternative form of yes.
Etymology 2
Noun
yus (plural yuses)
Either of two letters, little yus (Ѧ) and big yus (Ѫ), representing nasal vowel sounds in the Cyrillic alphabet. The only major Slavic language retaining these sounds is Polish, which is written in the Latin alphabet.
Etymology 3
See yu.
Noun
yus
plural of yu
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
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