Yod is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.
You can make 13 anagrams from letters in yod (doy).
1725-35; Hebrew yōdh, akin to yādh hand
But yod better take him back with you when you go, Miss Ruth, He needs somebody to take care of himsho do!
Otherwise ϝ would have been used for the vowel υ, just as the Phoenician consonant yod became the vowel ι.
But the explanation of the yod is to be fetched from Eccles.
Being numbered ten, its Hebrew letter is yod, the hieroglyphic meaning of which is the forefinger extended as a sign of command.
Do yo reckon, Capn, yod let me pilot the Restless out o this harbor and some o the way down the bay?
In these inscriptions the yod (iota) is represented by a simple point.
Noah replied, “I can only send one of the two birds whose first letter is either Ain or yod.”