| 释义 |
▪ I. yogh|jɒg, -x|
Also ȝok, ȝoch, etc. (see quots.).
[See Mod. Lang. Review VI. (1911) 441 seqq., VII. (1912) 520–1.]
The name of the ME. letter ȝ: see G, Y.
The use of L. jugum ‘joke’ to designate this letter (see quot. a 1440) points to the prevalence of the English form ȝok.
c1300MS. McClean 123, lf. 114 b in Mod. Lang. Rev. (1911) VI. 442 · Yoȝ · ȝ · [examples] ȝef · ȝus · ȝer · ȝender · draȝ · sclaȝ · arȝ · marȝ. a1400Maundeville's Travels (Fr. text, MS. Brit. Mus. Harl. 4383, lf. 31) ibid. 444 Nous auons en nostre parleure en Engleterre deux lettres pluis qils nount en lour a b c, cest assauoir þ et ȝ, qi sont appelez thorn et yogh [v.rr. ȝogh, iogh, ȝok]. 1410–20Ibid. (Eng. text, MS. Cott. Tit. C. xvi, lf. 60 b) ibid. 445 Þ & ȝ, the whiche ben clept þorn and ȝogh [v.rr. ȝoch, ȝoche, ȝoghe, ȝouh, yowh, yough, ȝouȝ, ȝowȝe, ȝow, ȝoux, youx]. 14..MS. Reg. 17, B. 1, lf. 14 b, ibid. 442 Þe carect yogh, þat is to seie ·ȝ· is figurid lijk a ȝed. [a1440Thomas Elmham Liber Metr. de Hen. V ii. in Mem. Henry V (Rolls) 195 Praeposita litera Anglica, scilicet ȝ quae jugum sonat. c1465: see Y 1] .
▪ II. yogh
obs. form of yaw n.1 |
