Galician

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Etymology

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Attested since circa 1350. From Latin iungō. Cognate with Portuguese jungir and Spanish uncir.

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xunguir (first-person singular present xungo, third-person singular present xongue, first-person singular preterite xunguín, past participle xunguido)

  1. (transitive) to yoke
    • 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", 16:
      que tomase aqueles touros, et que os junzese et fose con elles ao cãpo, et que arase cõ elles
      that he should take those oxen, and yoke them and go with them into the field, and plough with them

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