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class="underline--2GdPQ"></div> </div>562 entries found. </div> <div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"> <div> <a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of J" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/J?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_1609">J<!-- --> <span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a> <div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"> <section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"> <div></div> <p>10th letter of the English alphabet, pronounced "jay," as in "kay" for <span class="foreign notranslate">-k-</span>, but formerly written out as <span class="foreign notranslate">jy</span>, rhyming with <span class="foreign notranslate">-i-</span> and corresponding to French <span class="foreign notranslate">ji</span>.</p> <p>One of the most stable English letters (it has almost always the same sound), it is a latecomer to the alphabet and originally had no sound value. The letter itself began as a scribal modification of Roman <span class="foreign notranslate">-i-</span> in continental Medieval Latin. The scribes added a "hook" to small <span class="foreign notranslate">-i-</span>, especially in the final position in a word or roman numeral, to distinguish it from the strokes of other letters. The dot on the <span class="foreign notranslate">-i-</span> (and thus the <span class="foreign notranslate">-j-</span>) and the capitalization of the pronoun <a href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/I?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of I " class="crossreference notranslate">I</a> are other solutions to the same problems.</p> <p>In English, <span class="foreign notranslate">-j-</span> was used as a roman numeral throughout Middle English, but the letter <span class="foreign notranslate">-y-</span> was used to spell words ending an "i" sound, so <span class="foreign notranslate">-j-</span> was not needed to represent a sound. Instead, it was introduced into English c. 1600-1640 to take up the consonantal sound that had evolved from the Roman <span class="foreign notranslate">i-</span> since Late Latin times. In Italian, <span class="foreign notranslate">g-</span> was used to represent this, but in other languages <span class="foreign notranslate">j-</span> took the job. This usage is attested earliest in Spanish, where it was in place before 1600.</p> <blockquote> No word beginning with J is of Old English derivation. [OED] </blockquote> <p>English dictionaries did not distinguish words beginning in <span class="foreign notranslate">-i-</span> and <span class="foreign notranslate">-j-</span> until 19c., and <span class="foreign notranslate">-j-</span> formerly was skipped when letters were used to express serial order.</p> <p>In Latin texts printed in modern times, <span class="foreign notranslate">-j-</span> often is used to represent Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">-i-</span> before <span class="foreign notranslate">-a-</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">-e-</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">-o-</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">-u-</span> in the same syllable, which in Latin was sounded as the consonant in Modern English <span class="foreign notranslate">you</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">yam</span>, etc., but the custom has been controversial among Latinists:</p> <blockquote> The character <span class="foreign notranslate">J</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">j</span>, which represents the letter sound in some school-books, is an invention of the seventeenth century, and is not found in MSS., nor in the best texts of the Latin authors. [Lewis] </blockquote> <p>In English words from Hebrew, <span class="foreign notranslate">-j-</span> represents <span class="foreign notranslate">yodh</span>, which was equivalent to English consonantal <span class="foreign notranslate">y</span> (hence <span class="foreign notranslate">hallelujah</span>) but many of the Hebrew names later were conformed in sound to the modern <span class="foreign notranslate">-j-</span> (compare <a href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/Jesus?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of Jesus " class="crossreference notranslate">Jesus</a>).</p> </section> </div> </div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/J?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_1609"><span>Related entries & more</span> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a> <div style="clear:both"></div> </div> <div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"> <span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span> <div id="div-gpt-ad-pc-sp-infeed-1" style="min-width:728px;min-height:90px"></div> </div> <div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"> <div> <a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of jab" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/jab?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_1610">jab<!-- --> <!-- -->(v.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a> <div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"> <section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"> <div></div> <p>1813, "to thrust or strike with a point," a Scottish variant of <span class="foreign notranslate">job</span> "to strike, pierce, thrust," from Middle English <span class="foreign notranslate">jobben</span> "to jab, thrust, peck" (c. 1500), a word of unknown origin, perhaps imitative. Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Jabbed</span>; <span class="foreign notranslate">jabbing</span>.</p> </section> </div> </div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/jab?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_1610"><span>Related entries & more</span> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a> <div style="clear:both"></div> </div> <div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"> <div> <a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of jab" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/jab?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_42672">jab<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a> <div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"> <section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"> <div></div> <p>1825, "a thrust or poke with the point of something," from <a href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/jab?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_1610" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of jab " class="crossreference notranslate">jab</a> (v.). Meaning "a punch with the fist" is from 1889. Sense of "injection with a hypodermic needle," once beloved by newspaper headline writers, is from 1914.</p> </section> </div> </div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/jab?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_42672"><span>Related entries & more</span> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a> <div style="clear:both"></div> </div> <div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"> <div> <a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of jabber" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/jabber?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_1611">jabber<!-- --> <!-- -->(v.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a> <div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"> <section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"> <div></div> <p>"talk rapidly and indistinctly," 1650s, spelling variant of Middle English <span class="foreign notranslate">jablen</span> (c. 1400), also <span class="foreign notranslate">javeren</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">jaberen</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">chaveren</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">jawin</span>; probably ultimately echoic. Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Jabbered</span>; <span class="foreign notranslate">jabbering</span>. The noun, "rapid, unintelligible talk" is 1727, from the verb. Related: <span class="foreign notranslate">Jabberment</span> (Milton).</p> </section> </div> </div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/jabber?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_1611"><span>Related entries & more</span> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a> <div style="clear:both"></div> </div> <div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"> <div> <a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of Jabberwocky" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/Jabberwocky?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_1612">Jabberwocky<!-- --> <span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a> <div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"> <section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"> <div></div> <p>1871, nonsense word (perhaps based on <span class="foreign notranslate">jabber</span>) coined by Lewis Carroll, for the poem of the same name, which he published in "Through the Looking-Glass." The poem is about a fabulous beast called the <span class="foreign notranslate">Jabberwock</span>.</p> </section> </div> </div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/Jabberwocky?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_1612"><span>Related entries & more</span> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a> <div style="clear:both"></div> </div> <div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"> <span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="5022190299" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins> </div> <div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"> <div> <a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of jabot" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/jabot?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_35181">jabot<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a> <div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"> <section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"> <div></div> <p>1823, "frill of a men's shirt," from French <span class="foreign notranslate">jabot</span> "gizzard (of a bird), frill on a shirt front" (16c.), a word of unknown origin. Klein suggests a connection with <span class="foreign notranslate">gaver</span> "to cram, gorge," and thus ultimately with English <a href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/jaw?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_1679" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of jaw " class="crossreference notranslate">jaw</a> (n.). Of women's clothing from 1869.</p> </section> </div> </div><a data-more="true" class="word_4pc__footer--2yfj3" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/jabot?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_35181"><span>Related entries & more</span> <i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="opacity:0"></i></a> <div style="clear:both"></div> </div> <div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"> <div> <a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of jabroni" href="https://www-etymonline-com.translate.goog/word/jabroni?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#etymonline_v_35179">jabroni<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a> <div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"> <section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"> <div></div> <p>c. 2000, professional wrestling slang for one whose main purpose is to make the better-known wrestlers of the organization look good; he or she does this by losing to them. More commonly known as a <span class="foreign notranslate">jobber</span>, in a specialized sense of that word (though some enthusiasts claim there is a difference), and perhaps a mock-Italianized form of that word (but compare <span class="foreign notranslate">jaboney</span> "naive person; immigrant; hoodlum," a word of unknown origin, in American English use c. 1990). Formerly in pugilism slang such a fighter was a <span class="foreign notranslate">set-up</span> (by 1926).</p> <blockquote><strong>Jobber</strong> — A performer who regularly loses on television and doesn't receive much if any push. A comparable term for such a performer is <span class="foreign notranslate">jabroni</span>, which is a favorite catch-phrase of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. To soften the blow of such labels, some wrestling promotions refer to jobbers as <span class="foreign notranslate">enhancement talent</span>. <span class="foreign notranslate">Carpenter</span> was the phrase used by earlier generations. 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