yugo

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

Related: yugada

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 att