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  • 81join — [13] Join goes back ultimately to a prehistoric Indo European *jug (which also produced English adjust, conjugal, jostle, joust, jugular, juxtapose, subjugate, yoga, and yoke). Its Latin descendant was jungere ‘join’, which passed into English… …

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  • 82subdue — [14] Subdue denotes etymologically ‘lead away’. It came via Anglo Norman *subduer from Latin subdūcere ‘lead away, withdraw’, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub ‘from under, away’ and dūcere ‘lead’ (source of English duct, duke, etc). The …

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  • 83yoke — [OE] The etymological ideal underlying yoke is of ‘joining’ – here, of joining two animals together. The word came ultimately from Indo European *jugom, which also produced Latin jugum ‘yoke’ (source of English conjugal, jugular [16], and… …

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  • 84subjugator — (n.) 1834, agent noun in Latin form from SUBJUGATE (Cf. subjugate) …

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  • 85conquer — verb 1) the Franks conquered the Visigoths Syn: defeat, beat, vanquish, trounce, triumph over, be victorious over, get the better of, worst; overcome, overwhelm, overpower, overthrow, subdue, subjugate, quell, quash, crush …

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  • 86defeat — [n1] overthrow, beating ambush, annihilation, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing*, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess,… …

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  • 87join — [13] Join goes back ultimately to a prehistoric Indo European *jug (which also produced English adjust, conjugal, jostle, joust, jugular, juxtapose, subjugate, yoga, and yoke). Its Latin descendant was jungere ‘join’, which passed into English… …

    Word origins

  • 88subdue — [14] Subdue denotes etymologically ‘lead away’. It came via Anglo Norman *subduer from Latin subdūcere ‘lead away, withdraw’, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub ‘from under, away’ and dūcere ‘lead’ (source of English duct, duke, etc). The …

    Word origins

  • 89yoke — [OE] The etymological ideal underlying yoke is of ‘joining’ – here, of joining two animals together. The word came ultimately from Indo European *jugom, which also produced Latin jugum ‘yoke’ (source of English conjugal, jugular [16], and… …

    Word origins

  • 90KINGDOMS OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL — samuel and the beginnings of israelite monarchy the united david solomon division of the the earliest kings the last days of samaria. the kingdom of judah until its destruction Samuel and Saul: The Beginnings of Israelite Monarchy Our earliest… …

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