Where does “jaywalking” come from?
jaywalking (English) comes from English jaywalk, from English jaywalker, from English Jay, from English jy, from English I, from Old French i, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
jaywalking (English): An act of behaving as a jaywalker
Definitions
- An act of behaving as a jaywalker
Ancestry of “jaywalking”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | jaywalk | To behave as a jaywalker; to violate pedestrian... |
| 2 | English | jaywalker | A person who violates pedestrian traffic... |
| 3 | English | Jay | from, a nickname for a chatty or showy person |
| 4 | English | jy | The name of the Latin-script letter J |
| 5 | English | I | The speaker or writer, referred to as the... |
| 6 | Old French | i | there |
| 7 | Latin | hīc | this; these in the plural |
| 8 | Latin | heic | — |
| 9 | Latin | hic | this; these in the plural |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |