Etymology

dijet

D2I1J8E1T1

Today it means: A pair of jets Full definition →

English jet ← French jet ← Old French get
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
  3. Proto-Hellenic*dwi-
  4. Ancient Greekδῐ- (dĭ-)
  5. Latindi-
  6. Englishdi-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*(H)yeh₁-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁ként
  9. Latiniaciō
  10. Latiniactus
  11. Vulgar Latin*iectus
  12. Old Frenchget
  13. Frenchjet
  14. Englishjet
  15. English todaydijet

From di- + jet.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.