English

hoverjet

From hover + jet.

A compound of hover + jet

Middle English hoveren ‘to float in the air, hover’

English hover

Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’

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Latin iactus ‘a throwing, a throw’

Vulgar Latin *iectus

Old French get

French jet ‘spurt’

English jet

Today it means

noun A kind of levitating aeroplane or spacecraft.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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