English
jut
Jut comes from Middle English jutten ‘to project, jut out’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-‘to throw’root as named · steps between not traced
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500jutten‘to project, jut out’
- Englishearliest quotation 1994jut
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-‘to throw’root as named · steps between not traced
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500jutten‘to project, jut out’
- Englishearliest quotation 1994jut
Earliest quotation: 1994, Bruce Thomas, Childhood: “The flight path into Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’
year, project, hour, disease, object, ease, jet, adjacent, injection, jess, trajectory, inject, conjecture, catheter, gist, ejection, jetty, abject, eject, ejaculation, enema, ejaculate, jettison, subjection, iambic, interject, joist, jetsam, 43 more
Today it means
verb To stick out.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.