English

jet ski

A genericized trademark of Jet Ski.

Equivalent to jet + ski

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

Proto-Indo-European *skey- ‘to cut, split’

Proto-Germanic *skīdą ‘stick’

Old Norse skíð ‘stick of wood, snowshoe’

English ski

The story

A genericized trademark of Jet Ski.

noun A small motorized watercraft with a flattish hull and an upright centre, which a rider sits astride.

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