Noun: yoga
Sample Sentences
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If you're not into yoga / If you have half a brain / […] / Then I'm the love that you've looked for / Write to me and escape [1979, Rupert Holmes, “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”, in Partners in Crime:]
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Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you. [2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN:]
Nouns inflected like yoga
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *yewg-
3. Proto-Indo-European *yówg-os
4. Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwgas
5. Proto-Indo-Aryan *yáwgas
6. Sanskrit योग॑ (yóga)bor.
7. English yoga
8. Borrowed from Sanskrit योग (yóga, “yoking, union”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *yáwgas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwgas, from Proto-Indo-European *yéwg-o-s, from *yewg- (“to join”) (whence also yoke).
Verbs referencing "yoga"
Finnish Nouns
jooga, Hungarian Nouns
jóga, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
åk, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
åk.