Joist

Joist
Recorded in England in a wide range of spellings including Jest, Jeste, Joce, Jose, Joist, Jost, Joust and Joost, this is a surname of Germanic, Dutch, Breton and Norman-Franch origins. It is a cognate of the surname 'Joyce', itself deriving from the Breton personal name Iodoc, a diminutive of 'Iudh' meaning 'lord' and introduced into England by the Normans in the forms Iocius or Josce. Both these names are recorded in 'Social and Economic Documents of London' c.1140. Josse was the name of a saint who had a hermitage at the modern village of St. Josse-sur-Mer in Brittany, in the 7th century. Early examples of the surname recordings include: Isaac Joscei in the 'Pipe Rolls' of Middlesex in the year 1208, and Nicholas Joce of Hampshire, in the Hundred Rolls of 1273. Interestingly the German form of Jost and the Dutch of Joost are both recorded in London in the early 18th century. Examples taken from early surving church registers of the diocese of Greater London include Thomas Jeste who married at St Giles Cripplegate on June 7th 1631, Mary Jost, the daughter of Hans Jost, christened at St. Botolph without, Aldgate on April 14th 1714, and Elizabeth Emma Joist, who was christened at St. George the Martyr, Southwark, on April 20th 1823. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Joce. which was dated 1353, in the Pipe Rolls of Essex, during the reign of King Edward III of England, 1327-1377. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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  • Joist — (joist), n. [OE. giste, OF. giste, F. g[^i]te, fr. gesir to lie, F. g[ e]sir. See {Gist}.] (Arch.) A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Joist — Joist, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Joisted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Joisting}.] To fit or furnish with joists. Johnson. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • joist — [joist] n. [ME giste < OFr, a bed, couch, beam < gesir, to lie < L jacere, to lie, throw: see JET1] any of the parallel planks or beams that hold up the planks of a floor or the laths of a ceiling: see FRAME vt. to provide with joists …   English World dictionary

  • joist — [dʒɔıst] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: giste, from Latin jacere to lie ] one of the beams that support a floor or ceiling …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • joist — [ dʒɔıst ] noun count a long piece of wood or metal put below a floor or ceiling to support it …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • joist — (n.) early 14c. (late 13c. in Anglo Latin), from O.Fr. giste beam supporting a bridge (Mod.Fr. gîte), noun use of fem. pp. of gesir to lie, from L. iacere to lie, rest, related to iacere to throw (see JET (Cf. jet) (v.)). Notion is of wooden beam …   Etymology dictionary

  • joist — ► NOUN ▪ a length of timber or steel supporting part of the structure of a building. DERIVATIVES joisted adjective. ORIGIN Old French giste beam supporting a bridge , from Latin jacere lie down …   English terms dictionary

  • Joist — A roof made with a concrete slab with concrete joists A joist, in architecture and engineering, is one of the horizontal supporting members that run from wall to wall, wall to beam, or beam to beam to support a ceiling, roof, or floor. It may be… …   Wikipedia

  • joist — 1. noun A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming …   Wiktionary

  • joist — [14] Etymologically, a joist is a wooden beam on which boards ‘lie’ down. The word’s ultimate ancestor is the Latin verb jacēre ‘lie down’ (from which English also gets adjacent). Its neuter past participle jacitum was taken into Old French as a… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

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