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yuganandhā

yuganandha

masc nom pl of yuganandha (adj); fem nom sg of yuganandha (adj); fem nom pl of yuganandha (adj); nt nom pl of yuganandha (adj); …

1. yoked together; conjoined; paired; lit. bound by a yoke

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• yuga — root · yoke
  From √yuj 'to join'. Cognate with Sanskrit yoga, Greek zygon, Latin iugum, English yoke—all descending from PIE *yeug- 'to join, unite'.
• nandha — stem · bound, tied
  Past participle of √nah 'to bind, tie'. Cognate with Sanskrit nadha and English knot (via PIE *ned- 'to bind'). Here used as an adjective meaning 'bound' or 'tied together'.

Analysis. yuga (yoke) + nandha (bound, tied); a compound meaning 'bound by a yoke' or 'yoked together', used of paired or conjoined things.

Etymology. yuga from √yuj (to join, yoke) — cognate with Sanskrit yoga, Greek zygon (yoke), Latin iugum, English yoke, all from PIE *yeug- 'to join'. nandha is the past participle of √nah (to bind, tie); cognate with Sanskrit nadha, English knot (through PIE *ned- 'to bind'). Together the word preserves the concrete imagery of animals bound together by a single yoke.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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