What does "ioyning" mean?

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From Butter’s news serial, 2^nd August, 1622:

The certaine Newes

of this preſent Weeke.

BROVGHT BY SVNDRY

Poſts from ſeuerall places, but chiefly
the progreſſe and arriuall of Count Mansfield
with the Duke of Brunſwicke into Champeny in
Fʀᴀɴᴄᴇ; and the ioyning of ſundry of the
Princes with them, &c.

With the preparation of the French

King to reſiſt him : And what great feare Count
Mᴀɴꜱꜰɪᴇʟᴅꜱ vnexpected arriuall hath
put all Fʀᴀɴᴄᴇ in, &c.

Out of the best Informations of Letters and
other, this ſecond of August 1622.

Lᴏɴᴅᴏɴ,
Printed by I.H. for Nathaniel Butter, and are to
be ſold at his ſop at the ſigne of the Pide Bull
at S. Auſtins Gate. 1622.

I’ve transcribed this from p. 197 of Andrew Pettigree’s masterful The Invention of News: How the world came to know about itself. I can cope with most of it, but ioyning has me puzzled.

That first ‹i› is now spelled with a ‹j› ... ‹j› is in origin a long (often terminal) form of ‹i› which over time came to be used exclusively for the consonant. — StoneyB on hiatus, Jan 04 '16 at 19:38
Heres a wikipedia that describes several of these orthographic shifts. Anyone want to merge all these comments into a CW answer? — cobaltduck, Jan 04 '16 at 19:46
"My girl ioyned the circus; now I've ioyned the lonely hearts club"? I'm assuming that CW means country-western. — deadrat, Jan 04 '16 at 20:55
This may be of interest on the history site. 1622 was during the Thirty-years-War. Any idea what Count Mansfield and the Duke of Brunswick were doing? — WS2, Jan 04 '16 at 21:51
Related: If the letter J is only 400–500 years old, was there a J sound that preceded the design of the letter? ; of related interest, see Cerberus' answer in Why should the first person pronoun 'I' always be capitalized? — choster, Jan 05 '16 at 20:58
Thanks, by the way, for faythfully tranſcribing the long s. — Anton Sherwood, Dec 11 '16 at 00:26

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 31 '24 at 09:05

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JEL already answered the question in the first comment: it means "joining". Since it's a question on definition, it probably won't hurt just to cite the dictionary of that era as some source.

In the A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1611) by Randle Cotgrave

ioinct: A ioynt, ioyning, closure; seame

ioindre: To ioyne, couple, … or combine together

Iointe: A ioynt; closure; ioyning; seame

edited Jan 31 '24 at 09:05

Rand al'Thor

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answered Jan 06 '16 at 18:55

SYK

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A valuable resource, not one of ELU's standard references, I'd guess. – Edwin Ashworth Jan 31 '24 at 12:30

What does "ioyning" mean?

The certaine Newes

BROVGHT BY SVNDRY

With the preparation of the French

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