Etymograph

English

JavaScript

JavaScript comes from English Java ‘a programming language’.

  1. English1500–presentJava‘a programming language’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2004JavaScript

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  1. English1500–presentJava‘a programming language’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2004JavaScript

Earliest quotation: 2004, Jon Duckett, Creating a JavaScript Library: “By examining lots of examples, you will learn how…”

A compound of Java ‘a programming language’ + script

Old Javanese Jawa ‘Javanese’

Javanese Jawa ‘Javanese’

English Java

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti

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Latin scrībō ‘to write’

Latin scrīptum ‘something written’

Old French escrit ‘writing(s)’

Middle English scrit ‘writing; document’

English script

The story

From Java (‘a programming language’) + script, although the language is not closely related to Java and was originally to be called LiveScript.

Every English word from English Java

Today it means

name A scripting programming language most commonly used to add interactive features to webpages.

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