Yaya.

n.  grandmother, in Greek, as discussed in Travelers’ Tales Greece: True Stories by Larry Habegger.

<To them all she was “Yaya,” the Greek for grandmother.  —Hugo Vickers, Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece.>

yaya.

n.  pent-up energy, stress.

<See, it’s not that we’re looking for a war.  We just want to get our yayas out on each other, scream and yell and jump and pound on each other.  —Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed: A Novel.> <Dog lovers ... often unleash their pups to let them get their yayas out—despite laws against going off leash.  —Ann Oldenburg, Dog Lover’s Companion to Washington D.C. & Baltimore: The Inside Scoop on Where to Take Your Dog.>

Yaya.

n.  the first woman on earth, as in the creation story of the Tainos peoples of Puerto Rico, discussed Stories From Puerto Rico by Robert L. Muckley.

yaya.

n.  the Incan word for father, as discussed in The Incas by Terence N. Daltroy.

Yaya.

n.  the name of the Turkish infantrymen of the early Ottoman forces (1324-59), as discussed in The Janissaries by David Nicolle.

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