Where does “jun” come from?

jun (Middle English) comes from Old French juing, from Latin iūnius, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

Ancestry of “jun”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchjuing—
2LatiniūniusOf the Junian gens
3Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
4Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
5Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

Words derived from “jun”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yós →Every word from Latin -ius →Every word from Proto-Italic -jōs →