Jacuzzi

jacuzzi English Etymology A trademark. en the Jacuzzi brothers. Obsolete variant of en it Iacuzzi, as Italian has removed the letter J from native words. Pronunciation en /d͡ʒəˈku.zi/ Noun en jacuzzi from 1960s en-GB Victoria Coren I don't love you. PS: you owe me £2.50 w:The Guardian 1999-04-19 https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/apr/19/features11.g25 0261-3077 Itemised in his claim we even find £200 for ‘Jacuzzi repair’. I think that's a bit more information about their relationship than we required. https://web.archive.org/web/20140508033455/https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/apr/19/features11.g25 Proper noun en Italian. Verb en jacuzzi. Further reading Jacuzzi German Etymology de :bor en:jacuzzi de en jacuzzi. Pronunciation de /jaˈkʊt͡si/ /d͡ʒaˈkuːzi/ de De-Jacuzzi.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de De-Jacuzzi2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m,(s),s:- de uncommon jacuzzi de Whirlpool usual also rare Sprudelbad de Heiß und innig Die Zeit https://www.zeit.de/2015/22/suedkorea-seoul-suedkorea 2015-05-28 Susann Sitzler In der Badezone nebenan planschen Frauen in Jacuzzis und einem Schwimmbecken, aber dafür ist jetzt noch nicht die Zeit. de Katrin Groth Auf der „Roald Amundsen“ in der Antarktis: Grüner als andere Die Tageszeitung: taz 2020-02-15 https://taz.de/!5660390/ 0931-9085 Für noch mehr Nachhaltigkeit wird an Bord die Motorabwärme genutzt, um Duschen, Kabinen und die beiden Jacuzzi zu heizen. Declension m,(s),s:- Further reading Italian Etymology Originally it Iacuzzi, the surname was misspelled with an initial J by an Ellis Island official. Related to it Giacomo, along with many other spelling variants. it Is there a scientific source for the Ellis Island bit? It was quite usual to use it J for semi-consonantal I in earlier Italian (initially or intervocalically). Most Italian words and names in I + vowel can easily be attested with J as well. Pronunciation Jacùttsi Proper noun mfbysense it Further reading Dodd, Philip (2008): What's in a Name?: From Joseph P. Frisbie to Roy Jacuzzi, How Everyday Items Were Named for Extraordinary People