Question about "Ya" in Japanese? 10 points!!!?

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In my Japanese copy, the father says "to sa ya no kono____ <--kanji for a horse betting ticket that has a large payback if you win the gamble."
 So it looks like this: とさやんの. He is telling his daughter that he means to pay his debts back after winning a bet, to which she freaks about as he used up all of their food money.

For what purpose is there a "ya" after "tosa?" And why is "n" after "ya?"

Lutlam · Accepted Answer

Does that look like this: とさやんの この 馬券 Tosa-yan no kono baken

If so: 
The とさ Tosa is most likely a person's name; probably the surname of somebody.

And the -やん -yan itself doesn't have a concrete meaning; it's an honorific title frequently used in Kansai dialect of Japanese. It's something like -さん -san in Standard Japanese, though -やん -yan sounds much less formal.

So とさやんの この 馬券 Tosa-yan no kono baken translates to "This betting ticket of Tosa-yan's".

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