yokとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

名詞

yok (plural yoks)

1. Alternative form of yock.

動詞

yok (third-person singular simple present yoks, present participle yokking, simple past and past participle yokked)

1. Alternative form of yock.

語源 2

Reversal of goy, with final devoicing.

別の表記

• Yok

名詞

yok (plural yoks)

1. (derogatory) A non-Jew; a Gentile.
   • 1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 43:

     [W]e had not only won the cup but also a great moral victory over the yoks.

   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 162:

     I'd been warned about just such a day, when the yoks would come with their white-boned fists and start knocking us about.

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 ġeoc, from Proto-West Germanic *juk, *jok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Forms with a long vowel are either leveled from inflected forms or influenced by the verb yoken, where open-syllable lengthening took place.

発音

• IPA: /jɔk/, /jɔ̞ːk/

名詞

yok (plural yokes)

1. yoke (attachment connecting animals to a farm implement).
2. A yoked group of draught animals.
3. (figuratively) Regulation; limits or their imposition:
   1. A restriction or limit; that which restrains.
   2. Bondage, subjection; lack of freedom.
   3. Marriage; the marital bond.
4. Something resembling a yoke.
5. (rare) A challenge, burden or load.

関連する語

• yoken

派生した語

• English: yoke (obsolete yock)
• Middle Scots: ȝok, ȝoke, ȝock, ȝocke, yok, yoke
  • Scots: yoke, yock

参照

• “yōke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.