Etymograph

English

jumpstation

From jump + station, from the name of an early search engine, JumpStation.

A compound of jump + station

Middle English jumpen ‘to walk quickly’

English jump

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘to stand’

Latin statiō ‘standing’

Latin statiōnem

Anglo-Norman estation

Middle English stacioun ‘station, position’

English station

Today it means

noun A web site that acts as a portal, offering links to many other sites on a particular topic.

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

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