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Where does “dijet” come from?

dijet (English) comes from English jet, from French jet, from Old French get, from Vulgar Latin iectus, from Latin iactus, from Latin iacere, from Latin iaceō, from Latin -eō — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

dijet (English): A pair of jets

Definitions

  1. A pair of jets

Ancestry of “dijet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishjetA collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or...
2Frenchjetthrow; spurt, spout, jet; jet
3Old Frenchget—
4Vulgar Latiniectus—
5Latiniactusthrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been...
6Latiniacerepresent active infinitive of iaciō; second-person...
7Latiniaceō—
8Latin-eō—
9Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
10Proto-Italic-ējō—
11Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
12Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots
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