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Where does “jetboating” come from?

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

jetboating (English): The recreational use of a jetboat

Definitions

  1. The recreational use of a jetboat

Ancestry of “jetboating”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishjetboatA boat propelled by a strong jet of water ejected...
2EnglishjetA collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or...
3Frenchjetthrow; spurt, spout, jet; jet
4Old Frenchget—
5Vulgar Latiniectus—
6Latiniactusthrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been...
7Latiniacerepresent active infinitive of iaciō; second-person...
8Latiniaceō—
9Latin-eō—
10Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
11Proto-Italic-ējō—
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
13Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots
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