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Middle English: from Old French ges, based on Latin jactus ‘a throw’, from jacere ‘to throw’.
wiktionary
From Middle English ges, from Middle French gies, from the plural of jet(“throw”), from Vulgar Latin*iectus, jectus < iactus(“a throwing”), or from jeter(“to throw”), itself from Latin iactare.
See jet (etymology 2).
See just.
etymonline
jess (n.)
leg-strap used in hawking and falconry, mid-14c., from Old French jes "straps fastened round the legs of a falcon," plural of jet, literally "a cast of a hawk, a throw, a throwing," from Latin iactus "a throw, a cast," from iacere "to throw, cast" (from PIE root *ye- "to throw, impel"). Related: Jesses.
