jь̑go

jь̑go Grammatical information: n. o Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `yoke'

Page in Trubačev: VIII 206-207

Old Church Slavic:

igo `yoke' [n o]

Russian:

ígo `yoke (fig.)' [n o]

Ukrainian:

ího `yoke' [n o]

Czech:

jho `yoke' [n o]

Slovak:

jho (OSlk.) `yoke, burden' [n o]

Polish:

jugo (dial.) `yoke, cross-beam' [n o];

igo (dial.) `yoke' [n o]

Slovincian:

vjĩgo `yoke' [n o]

Polabian:

jaid'ü `yoke' [n o];

jaigo `yoke' [Gensn o]

Serbo-Croatian:

igo (arch., lit.) `yoke' [n o] \{1\};

jìgo (Krk) `stabilizing cross-beam on primitive boats' [n o]

Slovene:

igọ̑ `yoke' [n s], ižę̑sa [Gens];

jígọ (Carinthia) `yoke' [n s], jižę̑sa [Gens]

Bulgarian:

ígo `yoke' [n o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: júʔgo

Lithuanian:

jùngas `yoke' [m o] 1

Latvian:

jûgs `yoke' [m o]

Indo-European reconstruction: iug-ó-m

IE meaning: yoke

Certainty: +

Page in Pokorny: 508

Comments: The s-stem that occurs in Slovene and in late Church Slavic texts must be analogical after forms such as kolesa `wheels', ojesa `thills' (cf. Vaillant Gr. II: 237).

Other cognates:

Skt. yugá- `yoke, pair' [n];

Gk. ζυγόν `yoke' [n];

Lat. iugum `yoke' [n]

Notes:

\{1\} The RSA gives the accentuations ȋgo and ígo. Skok has ȉgo with a question mark. The word igo seems to have been introduced into the literary language at a relatively recent stage.