Yod or YOD may refer to:
Language
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Yod (sound)
The voiced palatal approximant is a type of consonant used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ; the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is j, and in the Americanist phonetic notation i ...
, the /j/ glide - the sound of the letter 'i' in the word ''view''
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Yodh
Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ''yōd'' 𐤉, Hebrew ''yod'' , Aramaic ''yod'' 𐡉, Syriac ''yōḏ'' ܝ, and Arabic ''yāʾ'' . It is also related to the Ancient Nort ...
, the tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets
People
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Father Yod
Father Yod ( ), or YaHoWha, born James Edward Baker (July 4, 1922 – August 25, 1975), was an American new religious movement founder and owner of one of the country's first health food restaurants, on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. He foun ...
(1922–1975), American esoteric spiritual leader and restaurateur
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Leslie Daiken
Leslie Herbert Daiken (29 June 1912 – 15 August 1964) was an Irish advertising copywriter, editor, and writer on children's toys and games, in his youth in the 1930s a poet active in leftist politics and editor of the duplicated circular ''Irish ...
(1912–1964; nicknamed ''Yod''), Irish writer, editor and activist
Other uses
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Yod (astrology)
In astrology (in the context of an astrological chart, birth chart or horoscope), a yod is a specific, planetary alignment that is formed by two planets being sextile to one another (60° apart), with a third planet being exactly 150° to the oth ...
, an aspect formation
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CFB Cold Lake
Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake , abbreviated as CFB Cold Lake, is a Canadian Forces Base in the City of Cold Lake, Alberta.
The facility is operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and is approximately south of the ...
, a Royal Canadian Air Force base in Alberta (IATA code: YOD)
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Year of the Dolphin
The year 2007 (extended to 2008) was proposed and declared as the (International) Year of the Dolphin (YoD) by the United Nations and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), along with the UN Convention on Migratory Species, and its specializ ...
, a 2007 United Nations Environment Programme observance
* Yods, characters in the 1999 ''
Outcast'' video game
See also
* Ecstatic Yod, a record label run by music critic
Byron Coley
Byron Coley is an American music critic who wrote prominently for '' Forced Exposure'' magazine in the 1980s, from the fifth issue until the magazine ceased publication in 1993. Prior to ''Forced Exposure'', he wrote for '' New York Rocker'', '' ...
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Yad
A yad (; , ) is a Jewish ritual pointer, or stylus, popularly known as a Torah pointer, used by the reader to follow the text during the Torah reading from the parchment Torah scrolls. It is often shaped like a long rod, capped by a small hand w ...
, the Jewish religious pointing device
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Yod-dropping
The phonological history of English includes various changes in the phonology of consonant clusters.
H-cluster reductions
The H-cluster reductions are various consonant reductions that have occurred in the history of English, involving conso ...
and
yod-coalescence
The phonological history of English includes various changes in the phonology of consonant clusters.
H-cluster reductions
The H-cluster reductions are various consonant reductions that have occurred in the history of English, involving conso ...
, sound changes in English
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