Where does “jet” come from?
Jet comes from Middle English get, from Latin gagates, from Latin iactus, from Latin iacere meaning to throw, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (H)yeh₁-.
jet (English): A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or...
Definitions
- A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or...
Ancestry of “jet”, step by step
jet traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French jet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | jet | throw; spurt, spout, jet; jet |
| 2 | Old French | get | — |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | iectus | — |
| 4 | Latin | iactus | thrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been... |
| 5 | Latin | iacere | present active infinitive of iaciō; second-person... |
| 6 | Latin | iaceō | to lie prostrate, lie down; recline |
| 7 | Latin | -eō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |