English
joist
Joist comes from Old French giste ‘resting-place’, from gesir ‘to lie down’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-‘to throw’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaciō‘to throw’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaceoas iacēre‘to lie prostrate, lie down’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400gesir‘to lie down’
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400giste‘resting-place’past participle of gesir
- Englishearliest quotation 1722joist
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-‘to throw’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaciō‘to throw’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaceoas iacēre‘to lie prostrate, lie down’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400gesir‘to lie down’
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400giste‘resting-place’past participle of gesir
- Englishearliest quotation 1722joist
Earliest quotation: 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year: “[…] a Family was infected there, in so terrible…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’
year, hour, trajectory, catheter, abject, enema, jut, iambic, jetsam, 37 more
through Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁ként
objective, projection, objection, projectile, objector, dejection, 23 more
through Latin iaciō ‘to throw’
project, object, jet, injection, jess, inject, conjecture, adjective, ejection, jetty, eject, ejaculation, ejaculate, subjection, interject, jettison, 31 more
through Latin iaceo ‘to lie prostrate, lie down’
disease, ease, adjacent, 4 more
through Old French giste ‘resting-place’
Today it means
noun A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- / joist