Etymology

jumpstyle

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Today it means: A European genre of frenetic electronic music accompanied by a jumping dance. Full definition →

English style ← Middle English stile ← Old French estile
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The story

  1. Englishjump
  2. Medieval Latinstylus
  3. Proto-Indo-European*(s)teyg-
  4. Proto-Italic*stiglos?
  5. Latinstilu
  6. Old Frenchestile
  7. Middle Englishstile
  8. Englishstyle
  9. English todayjumpstyle

From jump + style.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.