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Where does “jam” come from?

jam (Esperanto) comes from Latin iam, from Proto-Indo-European Hyā́m.

jam (Esperanto): already

Definitions

  1. already

Ancestry of “jam”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latiniamalready; now; anymore
2Proto-Indo-EuropeanHyā́m—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European Hyā́m →