yugo

Meaning

yoke (bar or frame of wood by which two animals are joined)

Concepts

yoke

collar

subjugation

Roman yoke

Synonyms

collar

Translations

Joch

joug

giogo

iugum

jou

jugo

juk

nîr

boyunduruk

servitude

oppression

canga

carcan

staffa

Hyphenated as

yu‧go

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʝuɡo/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish: yugo

Inherited from Latin: iugum

Cognate with Aragonese: chubo

Cognate with Asturian: xugu

Cognate with Galician: xugo

Cognate with Portuguese: jugo

Cognate with Old French: jou

Cognate with Friulian: jôf

Cognate with Romansh: giuf

Cognate with Venetian: dóvo

Cognate with Sardinian: giuu

In summary

From Old Spanish yugo, from Latin iugum, from Proto-Italic *jugom, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm, a root shared by iungō (“to join”). As it does not display the usual expected sound shifts from Latin, Meyer-Lübke considered it a semi-learned medieval borrowing, while Coromines and Pascual see it as deriving from a dialectal variant akin to Leonese (and perhaps influenced by the semantically related word uncir). An Old Spanish form jogo, which did undergo the normal phonetic transitions, is attested. Compare the dialectal variants ubio, (l)uvio, chuvo, chugo, juvo, cf. also Aragonese chubo, Asturian xugu, Galician xugo, Portuguese jugo. The -v- in some of these forms may represent a Vulgar Latin pronunciation *jŭu(m); compare Old French jou, jof, Friulian jôf, Engadine Romansch giuf, Venetan dóvo, Logudorese Sardinian giuu, yuu. Doublet of yoga.