yoke: [OE] The etymological ideal underlying yoke is of ‘joining’ – here, of joining two animals together. The word came ultimately from Indo-European *jugom, which also produced Latin jugum ‘yoke’ (source of English conjugal, jugular [16], and subjugate [15]), Welsh iau ‘yoke’, Czech jho ‘yoke’, Sanskrit yugám ‘yoke’, etc.
The prehistoric Germanic descendant of this was *jukam (borrowed into Finnish as juko), which evolved into German joch, Dutch juk, Swedish ok, Danish aag, and English yoke. The Indo-European form itself was derived from the base *jug-, *jeug-, *joug- ‘join’, which also produced Latin jungere ‘join’ (source of English join, junction, etc) and Sanskrit yoga ‘union’ (acquired by English via Hindi as yoga [19], which literally denotes ‘union with the universal spirit’). => conjugate, join, jugular, junction, subjugate, yoga
yoke (n.)
Old English geoc "contrivance for fastening a pair of draft animals," earlier geoht "pair of draft animals" (especially oxen), from Proto-Germanic *yukam (cognates: Old Saxon juk, Old Norse ok, Danish aag, Middle Dutch joc, Dutch juk, Old High German joh, German joch, Gothic juk "yoke"), from PIE root *yeug- "to join" (see jugular). Figurative sense of "heavy burden, oppression, servitude" was in Old English.
yoke (v.)
Old English geocian "to yoke, join together," from yoke (n.). Related: Yoked; yoking.
雙語例句
1. The introduction attempts to yoke the pieces together.
導言部分試圖將各部分硬拼湊在一起。
來自柯林斯例句
2. the yoke of imperialism
帝國主義的枷鎖
來自《權威詞典》
3. Every farmer knows how to yoke the oxen together.
每個家民都知道怎樣把牛拴在一起.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. They refused to bend beneath the oppressor's yoke.
他們拒絕屈服于壓迫者的奴役.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. Some designs incorporate a two - piece bonnet and yoke.