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  • Sanskrit योग (yoga): meaning, yoke cognates, and Matthew 11:30

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    The Sanskrit word yoga (योग) means yoking (Monier-Williams, 1899, p. 856). The same root is shared by modern English ‘yoke’ from Old English geoc (Pokorny, 1959, p. 508), as well as dialectal Polish igo and Ukrainian іго (iho) ‘yoke’ (Derksen, 2008, p. 209). A word derived from this root does not appear in the Lemko…