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Where does “Kampfjet” come from?

Kampfjet (German) comes from German Jet, 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.

Kampfjet (German): fighter jet

Definitions

  1. fighter jet

Ancestry of “Kampfjet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanJetjet plane
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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