Words that come from Proto-Indo-European “yokos”
337 words across 50 languages descend from Proto-Indo-European yokos — including joy, joke, joyous, joyful, jewel, joking, joyfully, Jewel.
See the etymology of yokos itself →
English (95)
- joy
- joke
- joyous
- joyful
- jewel
- joking
- joyfully
- Jewel
- joyously
- jokingly
- jeweller
- jocular
- joker
- joyless
- joyousness
- joystick
- jocose
- jocularity
- jocularly
- jocosely
- joyfulness
- joyance
- jongleur
- joyride
- killjoy
- jokester
- jocosity
- joylessness
- joylessly
- jewfish
- jewelweed
- giocoso
- jocoseness
- jewellike
- unjoyous
- jokily
- overjoy
- jokiness
- joky
- bejewel
- joyrider
- joysome
- joypad
- unjoyful
- jokeless
- joyant
- jewelfish
- jewelless
- jewelsmith
- jokesmith
- joyfuller
- jokelike
- metajoke
- unjocular
- nonjoke
- jewie
- joysticklike
- overjoyous
- jewelhouse
- jokeful
- unjoyously
- joyness
- jokesome
- unjoy
- unjokingly
- joyish
- jocularness
- joygasm
- joypop
- joypopper
- jewel-weed
- knock knock joke
- unjocularly
- minijoystick
- jokefest
- beau joueur
- unjoyfulness
- joylike
- jewelfront
- joydom
- joyhood
- jokest
- jokefic
- jokette
- killjoyism
- jokish
- jokefulness
- jokesomeness
- jokely
- antijoke
- outjoke
- unjoyfully
- joysomeness
- jokey
- knock-knock joke