yok – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of yok

Noun: yok
Sg.yok
Pl.yokes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like yok

wheston, scarth, scough, schour, scherd, scheld, schalk, schaft, smythy, bombard, bochous, hereditament, syngyng, peretre, bastard, conquest, comaundour, patroun, pacient, playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Inherited from Old English ġeoc, from Proto-West Germanic *juk, *jok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.
2. Forms with a long vowel are either leveled from inflected forms or influenced by the verb yoken, where open-syllable lengthening took place. See: Old English Nouns 'ġeoc', Old English Nouns 'ġeoc'.

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