Words that come from Proto-Italic “jakēō”

308 words across 36 languages descend from Proto-Italic jakēō — including adjacent, jet, aa, adjective, gist, jetty, adjectival, jettison.

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English (110)

Latin (33)

Italian (25)

French (19)

Esperanto (18)

Old French (17)

Portuguese (14)

Spanish (8)

Catalan (7)

Middle French (5)

Asturian (5)

German (5)

Romanian (4)

Serbo-Croatian (3)

Middle English (3)

Vulgar Latin (3)

Old Occitan (2)

Dutch (2)

Danish (2)

Russian (2)

Hungarian (2)

Yiddish (2)

Ido (2)

Romansch (2)

Late Latin (2)

Swedish (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Sicilian (1)

Limburgish (1)

Occitan (1)

Swahili (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Norman (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Louisiana Creole French (1)