Description:

The term 'jokku' stereotypically refers to a literal bridge. It is an Old Common word and mostly retains its original sense with some metaphorical extensions. It has significant semantic overlap in its metaphorical senses with 'herat' (connect) and 'keul' (turn, change).

Noun:

As a noun, 'jokku' is a physical bridge. It can also refer to a metaphorical connection, where it has meanings in a number of different scientific and technical disciplines, especially electrical engineering, and to social connections, especially the existence of a pathway for communication.

Verb:

The base form of the verb 'jokku' is as an intransitive pali verb meaning something like 'to be bridged', 'to be connected' or 'to be in transition'. It can also have a sense like 'tiding over', as in going through a period of temporary or reduced support between more permentat states, like a young person taking an apprenticeship between school and a permanent position. Its absolutive subject is the thing being bridged or in transition. E.g.:

A uhíru se spet jokku.
The river is bridged here.

A more common form might be to connect two absolutive subjects with 'epis', in which case the sense is that the two noun phrases are bridged or connected. A specific bridge or some causative factor or agent can be added periphrastically using a prepositional phrase introduced by 'ceo'.

A Fankúfer epis a Hare Fankúfer se jokku ceo na Jokku na Leon Laske.
Vancouver and North Vancouver are connected by the Lion's Gate Bridge.

A benefactive Noxaj form can be used to get the same sense of connecting something to something else while strongly emphasising one as the topic or focus. In this form, an absolutive subject is connected to a dative indirect object.

A Fankúfer nox jokku ceo na Jokku na Leon Laske ija Hare Fankúfer.
Vancouver is connected to North Vancouver by the Lion's Gate Bridge.

Both of these forms can undergo a causative valence shift to a skurun or happat form, respectively, where an ergative agent causing the bridging can be added. In this form, the bridge itself can be used as the agent, allowing the bridge to be emphasised.

Ja Jokku na Leon Laske te jokku a Fankúfer epis a Hare Fankúfer.
The Lion's Gate Bridge connects Vancouver and North Vancouver.

As alternative meaning of 'jokku' is to transition, often in the sense of a transgender person transitioning physically or socially in some fashion to their true gender, with an emphasis on being in the process as opposed to the change itself - the main verb used in this sense, 'keul', has more emphasis on the completed process, or relatively instantaneous acts on the path such as changing one's government documents. In this sense, it would be used as a pali verb. Because this verb also has a broader sense of being between things, a modifier like 'oluhotys', or just context might be used to clarify the intent.

Modifier:

The modifier form 'jokkus' is usually used in the sense of something being used to get someone though something. E.g.:

Ja cejánno wen hanne happat y jokkus kuppa ije.
My father gave me a loan to tide me over [a bridging loan].