yugo

Borrowed from Spanish yugo.

yugo

1. yoke

From Latin iugum, from Proto-Italic *jugom.

yugo

1. yoke
   • 1245, document from Sahagún^[1]

     dos yugos con sos cornales e con sus melenas,

     two yokes with their carnals and their manes,

• Asturian: xugu
• Leonese: xugu

• jugo
• juvo (attested in a 1214 document from Osma)
• jogo (attested in a 1219 document from Burgos)

Inherited from Latin iugum.

yugo m (plural yugos)

1. yoke
   • c. 1400, Pero López de Ayala, Traducción de las décadas de Tito Livio:

     Passar so el jugo era el mayor vituperio que estonce se podía fazer en aquel tienpo a los vencidos: que era poner tres lanças en el canpo en manera de forca e que todos passasen por deyuso.

     To go under the yoke was the greatest dishonour that, at the time, could be made to the defeated: it consisted of placing three spears on the field in the shape of a fork, and all would go under it.

• Spanish: yugo

yugo

1. nominative singular of yuga (“yoke”)

yugo

1. man

yugo

1. male

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.^[1] Compare the dialectal variants ubio,^[2][3] (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.

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• Rhymes: -uɡo
• Syllabification: yu‧go

yugo m (plural yugos)

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

   Synonym: ubio

• “yugo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “yugo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010