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jetsam

Meaningthrow

Common meaning: goods thrown overboard and washed ashore

Journey through time

  1. Latiniactare‘throw’source
  2. Anglo-Frenchgetesone‘goods thrown out’source
  3. Englishjetsam‘goods thrown overboard and washed ashore’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin iactare ‘throw’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry JETSAM, p. 308 · dictionary scan

Roots

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