The story
- Fula · derived fromjukka“to poke”
- Jamaican Creole · borrowed fromjooks“a robbery”
- English todayjux
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole jooks (“a robbery”), from Fula jukka (“to poke”).
Words from the same roots
Fulajukka all →
jook
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.