Where does “jettiness” come from?
jettiness (English) comes from English jetty, 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.
jettiness (English): blackness; the condition of being jetty
Definitions
- blackness; the condition of being jetty
Ancestry of “jettiness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | jetty | A structure of wood or stone extended into the... |
| 2 | English | jet | A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or... |
| 3 | French | jet | throw; spurt, spout, jet; jet |
| 4 | Old French | get | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | iectus | — |
| 6 | Latin | iactus | thrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been... |
| 7 | Latin | iacere | present active infinitive of iaciō; second-person... |
| 8 | Latin | iaceō | — |
| 9 | Latin | -eō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |