Yogh

Also ȝok, ȝoch, etc. (see quots.). [See Mod. Lang. Review, VI. (1911), 441 seqq., VII. (1912), 520–1.] The name of the ME. letter ȝ: see G, Y.

  The use of L. jugum ‘yoke’ to designate this letter (see quot. a. 1440) points to the prevalence of the English form ȝok.

c. 1300.  MS. M^cClean 123, lf. 114 b, in Mod. Lang. Rev. (1911), VI. 442. · Yoȝ · ȝ · [examples] ȝef · ȝus · ȝer · ȝender · draȝ · sclaȝ · arȝ · marȝ.

a. 1400.  Maundeville’s Travels (Fr. text, MS. Brit. Mus. Harl. 4383, lf. 31), ibid., 444. Nous auons en nostre parleure en Engleterre deux lettres pluis qils nount en lour a b c, cest assauoir þ et ȝ; qi sont appelez thorn et yogh [v.rr. ȝogh, iogh, ȝok]. Ibid. (1410–20), (Eng. text, MS. Cott. Tit. C. xvi, lf. 60 b), ibid., 445. Þ & ȝ, the whiche ben clept þorn and ȝogh [v.rr. ȝoch, ȝoche, ȝoghe, ȝouh, yowh, yough, ȝouȝ, ȝowȝe, ȝow, ȝoux, youx].

14[?].  MS. Reg. 17 B. 1, lf. 14 b, ibid., 442. Þe carect yogh, þat is to seie ·ȝ· is figurid lijk a ȝed.

[a. 1440.  Thomas Elmhan, Liber Metr. de Hen. V., ii., in Mem. Henry V. (Rolls), 195. Praeposita litera Anglica, scilicet 3 quae jugum sonat.

c. 1465:  see Y 1].