Other forms: jetties
A jetty is a small landing stage running out into the water. Tie up at the jetty, walk along the jetty, a wooden jetty.
It reaches out to where the water is deep enough for a boat, which is its whole purpose, and the word also covers a structure built to protect a harbour entrance from waves and silt. The French behind it means thrown out.
1nounjettyA small landing stage running out into the water.
“We sat on the end of the jetty with our feet dangling over the lake.”
jetty is a structure.
Old French jetee means something thrown out, from jeter, to throw, from Latin iactare.
Proto-Indo-European
*(H)yeh₁-
Latin
iectāre
Old French
geter
Middle French
geté
Anglo-Norman
geté
Middle English
gete
English, today
jetty
Built from
The is derived from Late Middle English gete, jette, jetti (“projecting upper storey of a building, overhang; breakwater, pier, jetty”), from Anglo-Norman geté, getee, getté, and Middle French geté, getee, jeté (“projecting upper storey of a building; breakwater, pier”) (modern French jetée), a noun use of the of geter, jeter, from Old French geter, jeter (“to throw”) from Latin iectāre, the of iectō (“to throw”), probably from Latin iactō (“to cast, hurl, throw”), from iaciō (“to cast, hurl, throw”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (H)yeh₁- (“to throw”)) + -tō. Compare jet (“(obsolete) protruding part”), jutty. The is derived from the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA