Word Origin Summary

À jour is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• à jour

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• ajournement

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• ažur

  HBS · borrowed from

• ajourføre

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• ajourføring

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• ajourinnfattet

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• a jour

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• ajour

  Swedish · borrowed from

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