युज्

Sanskrit

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to join, yoke”). Cognate with Latin iungō whence English junction, join; Ancient Greek ζεύγνῡμῐ (zeúgnūmi, “to yoke”); English yoke.

Pronunciation

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /júd͡ʑ/
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /jud͡ʑ/

Noun

युज् • (yúj) stem, m

1. a yoke-fellow , companion , comrade , associate
2. a sage who devotes his time to abstract contemplation
3. a pair , couple , the number " two "
4. du. the two Aśvins

Root

युज् • (yuj)

1. to join, to yoke

Derived terms

• युक्त (yuktá, “team, yoke, junction, connection”)
• युग (yugá, “yoke, team, couple, brace; generation, age”)
• युग्म (yugma, “pair, couple, brace”)
• युग्य (yugya, “vehicle, chariot, car”)
• युज्य (yújya, “union, alliance, relationship”)
• युनक्ति (yunákti, “to yoke; to join; to harness”)
• योक्तृ (yoktṛ́, “charioteer”)
• योक्त्र (yóktra, “rope, thong, halter”)
• योग (yóga, “yoking, team, junction, undertaking”)
• योगस् (yogas, “meditation”)
• योग्य (yógya, “fit for the yoke; draft animal”)
• योग्या (yógyā, “preparation, contrivance; exercise, practice; straps, traces”)
• योजन (yójana, “yoking; harnessing; yojana (unit of distance)”)
• योज्य (yojya, “to be joined; to be united”)
• योत्र (yotra, “a fastening, tie, rope”)

 

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “युज्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 853/2-3.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 132-133
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, pages 413; 417-418