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Where does “jagōn” come from?

jagōn (Old High German) comes from Proto-West Germanic jagōn — to hunt.

Ancestry of “jagōn”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicjagōnto hunt

Words derived from “jagōn”

  • Yeager
  • jaeger
  • yager
  • Jäger
  • егерь
  • Fallschirmjäger
  • Jägerschnitzel
  • jagdbar
  • verjagen
  • Jäger
  • Autogrammjäger
  • Kammerjäger
  • jägergrün
  • abjagen
  • jagen
  • Honigjäger
  • jage
  • jagt
  • Nuttenjäger
  • Jägermeister
  • Schürzenjäger
  • Bejagung
  • bejagen
  • Kopfgeldjäger
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