jetty relation?
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:09 pm
Just wondering if this word is also related to the French word, jeté, the name of a broad stretching leap in ballet?
So, in ballet it means "with the leg thrown out".early 15c., from O.Fr. jetee "a jetty, a projecting part of a building," also "a throw," noun use of fem. pp. of jeter "to throw" (see jet (v.)). Notion is of a structure "thrown out" past what surrounds it.