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
- fighter jet
Ancestry of “Kampfjet”, step by step
Kampfjet traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Jet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Jet | jet plane |
| 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 | to lie prostrate, lie down; recline |
| 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 |
via German kampf
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | kampf | struggle, battle, campaign, fight |
| 2 | Middle High German | kampf | — |
| 3 | Old High German | kampf | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | kamp | field; battle |
| 5 | Latin | campus | Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field;... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂emp- | to bend; crooked; to bend, curve |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂em- | to bend, to curve |