jail – English noun declension

English noun forms of jail

Noun: jail
Singularjail
Pluraljails

Sample Sentences

  • serve time in jail
  • released from jail
  • jail sentence
  • He was sent to jail for theft.
  • She visited her brother in jail.
  • Taking a shower at the high school, Tommy (the Kitten) Cavanaugh kids Ugly Palmers. "Ugly, if you think the world is coming to an end," he says, "what are you wasting your time here at this jail for? You gonna need American history up there?" [1966, Robert Coover, “Part II, section 11”, in The Origin of the Brunists, 1st edition, page 218:]
  • “I’m out!” That, of course, is an excerpt from Robert Durst’s children’s books [sic], Goodbye Jail. “Goodbye money. Goodbye bail. I killed them all, but goodbye jail. Of course! Of course!” [2015 June 7, “Bail”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 16, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:]
  • He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer. [2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
4. Proto-Indo-European *ḱowh₁ós?
5. Proto-Italic *kawos
6. Latin cavus
7. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
8. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
9. Proto-Italic *-ejos
10. Proto-Italic *-eos
11. Latin -eus
12. Latin *caveus
13. Latin cavea
14. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
15. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
16. Proto-Italic *-elos
17. Latin -ulus
18. Latin -ola
19. Late Latin caveola
20. Anglo-Norman jaiolebor.
21. Middle English gayole
22. English jail
23. Inherited from Middle English gayole, borrowed from Anglo-Norman jaiole, from Late Latin caveola, from Latin cavea (“cage”) + -ola (diminutive ending). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole.
24. Fully displaced native Middle English quartern (“prison, jail, cell”), from Old English cweartern (“jail, prison”).
25. Partially displaced native Middle English lok, from Old English loc (“enclosure, pen; jail, prison”), whence lock; and Middle English carcern, from Old English carcern, from Latin carcer (“prison, jail”).
26. Compare these Old English words, all meaning “jail”: heaþor, heolstorloca (means also “jail cell”), clūstorloc, dung (also “dungeon”), hlinræced, nirwþ, nīedcleofa, hearmloca, and nearu.

Verbs referencing "jail"

Spanish Nouns jaula, Zulu Nouns ijele.