English

jokeman

From joke + -man.

Formed from joke + -man

Proto-Indo-European *yek- ‘to speak’

Proto-Indo-European *yokos ‘word’

Proto-Italic *jokos ‘word’

Latin iocus ‘joke’

English joke

Today it means

noun A clown, someone who says or does idiotic things.

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