Etymograph

English

jut

Jut comes from Middle English jutten ‘to project, jut out’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-1‘to throw’root named by Wiktionary · steps between not traced
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500jutten1‘to project, jut out’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1994jut1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English jut
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1994, Bruce Thomas, Childhood: “The flight path into Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-Wiktionary, English jut‘to throw’root named by Wiktionary · steps between not traced
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500juttenWiktionary, English jut‘to project, jut out’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1994jutWiktionary, English jut. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 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, 42 more

Today it means

verb To stick out.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “jut”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- / jut

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