English
yuga
Yuga comes from Sanskrit युग ‘yoke’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *yewg-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yewg-‘to join, to yoke, to tie together’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*yugóm‘yoke’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*yugám‘yoke’reconstructed
- Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEयुगyuga‘yoke’
- Englishearliest quotation 1991yuga
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yewg-‘to join, to yoke, to tie together’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*yugóm‘yoke’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2500–1800 BCE*yugám‘yoke’reconstructed
- Sanskritc. 1500–500 BCEयुगyuga‘yoke’
- Englishearliest quotation 1991yuga
Earliest quotation: 1991, Deborah A. Soifer: “To Biardeau the linear nature of the declining dharma…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *yewg- ‘to join, to yoke, to tie together’
join, junction, yoga, adjunct, jodi, juncture, jugular, yojana, subjugate, 42 more
through Proto-Indo-European *yugóm ‘yoke’
Today it means
noun In Hindu theology, a period of a few hundred or thousand years, or an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages, catur-yuga catur-yuga: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *yewg- / yuga