See also: yök

English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /jɒk/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒk

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

yok (plural yoks)

  1. Alternative form of yock

Verb edit

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

  1. Alternative form of yock

Etymology 2 edit

Reversal of goy, with final devoicing.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

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.

Marshallese edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

yok

  1. you (singular); thou.

References edit

Mbula edit

Noun edit

yok

  1. water

References edit

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old English 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.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /jɔk/, /jɒːk/, /jɔːk/

Noun edit

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.

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

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

References edit

Tocharian B edit

Etymology 1 edit

Possibly specialized in meaning from the sense for "hair" > "hair color" > "color"; see Etymology 2 below.

Noun edit

yok m sg

  1. color

Adjective edit

yok (masculine singular accusative yokäṃ, masculine plural nominative yokäñ, feminine singular accusative yokäññai, feminine plural nominative yokäñña)

  1. colored

Etymology 2 edit

Uncertain. Adams speculates about the relation with the hapax legomenon in Vedic Sanskrit याशु (yāśu) etc., which he reads as "pubic hair", and Old Armenian ասր (asr, fleece).[1]

Noun edit

yok n (plural yākwa)

  1. hair
  2. wool

References edit

  1. ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “yok”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 550

Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یوق (yok), from Proto-Turkic *yōk. Compare Old Turkic 𐰖𐰸 (yok).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈjok/, (colloquial) /ˈjoː/, (regional) /ˈjoχ/
  • (file)

Adjective edit

yok

  1. absent, nonexistent, not there
    Antonym: var
    Kitapta 150 sayfa yok.There aren't 150 pages in the book.
  2. prohibited, forbidden
    Synonym: yasak
    Sigara içmek yok!No smoking (cigarettes)!)

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Noun edit

yok (definite accusative yoku or yoğu, plural yoklar)

  1. something that doesn't exist
  2. nonexistence

Derived terms edit

Interjection edit

yok

  1. no, nope
    Synonym: hayır

Conjunction edit

yok

  1. Used between two contrasting conditional clauses, conveying a negative meaning to the latter, similar to yoksa.
    Verdiler, ne âlâ; yok vermediler, döner gelirsin.If they give it, very well; if they don't, you'll just come back.
  2. Used to denote sarcastic disbelief or belittlement to what someone else has said.
    Yok kâğıdı kalmamış, yok mürekkebi iyi değilmiş, hasılı bir alay bahaneler!He didn't have paper left, his ink wasn't good, whole bunch of excuses!

Further reading edit

Volapük edit

Noun edit

yok (nominative plural yoks)

  1. yoke

Declension edit