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(jĕt)
(jĕt)n.
1. A dense black coal that takes a high polish and is used for jewelry.
2. A deep black.
adj.
1. Made of or resembling a dense, black, highly polished coal.
2. Black as coal; jet-black: jet hair.
[Middle English get, jet, from Anglo-Norman geet, jeet, from Latin gagātēs, from Greek, lignite, jet, after Gagai, a town of Lycia (near present-day Kumluca, Turkey), where pieces of lignite could be found washed out at the mouth of the local river.]
- Indo-European root: n̥dher-
- Indo-European root: od-
- Indo-European root: oi-no-
- Indo-European root: oit-
- Indo-European root: oktō(u)
- Indo-European root: okw-
- Indo-European root: op-
- Indo-European root: or-
- Indo-European root: orbh-
- Indo-European root: ors-
- Indo-European root: ost-
- Indo-European root: ous-
- Indo-European root: owi-
- Indo-European root: pag-
- Indo-European root: pan-
- Indo-European root: pant-
- Indo-European root: papa
- Indo-European root: past-
- Indo-European root: pau-
- Indo-European root: pau-
- Indo-European root: paəwr̥
- Indo-European root: ped-
- Indo-European root: peig-
- Indo-European root: peiə-
- Indo-European root: peku-