jaw

Etymology 1
From, seemingly borrowed from , itself from.

The OED argues that, since Chaucer rhymed with, the tonic vowel was not /uː/ and so  does not correspond to the French word. (On the other hand, it raises no such objection against the derivation of from Old French, from .) It is not clear that Middle English ever borrowed an Old French word in which /ɔw/ had already turned to /u/. If the normal modern English outcome is taken to be the /əʊ/ of, , , , and (implying a Middle English /ɔw/), then the /ɔː/ of  and  (implying a Middle English /aw/) may be explained as the result of either borrowing from Middle English dialects that merged /ɔw/ into /aw/ or blending with semantically adjacent words like  and.

The OED, with reluctance, offers the theory that the original Middle English form could have been an unattested, from an also-unattested Old English (from ). /t͡ʃ-/ > /d͡ʒ-/ is not unheard-of; cf. ,, , , and. The OED also note that a variant is in fact documented in English, but only from 1530 onward, some 150 years after the j- forms.

Noun

 * 1) One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
 * 2) The part of the face below the mouth.
 * 3)  Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance.
 * 4) A notch or opening.
 * 5) A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
 * 6) One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.
 * 7)  The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
 * 8)  Impudent, abusive or worthless talk.
 * 9)  Axle guard.
 * 10)   The curved part of the  marking the entry to the pocket.
 * 1)  The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
 * 2)  Impudent, abusive or worthless talk.
 * 3)  Axle guard.
 * 4)   The curved part of the  marking the entry to the pocket.
 * 1)  Axle guard.
 * 2)   The curved part of the  marking the entry to the pocket.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: ацламҳәа
 * Afrikaans: kaak
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: መንጋጋ, አገጭ
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: biyedaa’
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: فَكّ
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: ծնօտ
 * Aromanian: falcã, ciolj
 * Ashkun: ālikërī́k
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: яңаҡ
 * Belarusian: скі́віца, чэ́люсць
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: че́люст
 * Burmese: ပါးချိတ်ရိုး, ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: apapangig, alungaing (mandible)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Coptic: ⲟⲩⲟⲛϫϥ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Ese: sanoa
 * Esperanto: makzelo
 * Estonian: ,
 * Faroese: kjálkabein (1), høka (2)
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, mâchoire inférieure, mâchoire supérieure
 * Friulian: massele, mašele
 * Galician: caixal, ,
 * Georgian: ყბა
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σιαγών
 * Greenlandic: alleroq
 * Guaraní: tañykã
 * Haitian Creole: machwè
 * Hawaiian: ā
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: giall
 * Italian:, , (inferiore o superiore)
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: uwang
 * Jeju: ᄐᆞᆨ
 * Kamkata-vari:
 * Kamviri: ā́këli
 * Kata-vari: ářkëli
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ឆ្អឹងថ្គាម,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:, ຄາງກະໄຕ, ຫະນຸ
 * Latgalian: žūklis
 * Latin: maxilla
 * Latvian: žoklis
 * Lithuanian: žandikaulis
 * Macedonian: вилица, челуст
 * Malay: rahang
 * Maltese: xedaq
 * Middle English: cheke
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: ayaatsʼiin
 * Norman: mâchouaithe
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:, ,
 * Ojibwe: indaamikan
 * Old Javanese: wĕhaṅ
 * Ossetian: ӕфсӕр
 * Ottoman Turkish: چكه, فك, اڭك, زنخدان
 * Paicî: cérépwä
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Kjeew
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Prasuni: āgeli
 * Romanian:, mandibule, ,
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: massidda, mansidda, massidha, mansidha
 * Scottish Gaelic: giall
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вилица, чељуст
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: čeľusť
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: crjono
 * Southern Ndebele: umhlathi
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: utaya
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: panga
 * Tajik: ҷоғ
 * Taos: ȍdénemą
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: eňek, äň
 * Tày: càng
 * Ukrainian: ще́лепа
 * Urdu: جبڑا
 * Uyghur: جاغ
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: maseła, masela
 * Vietnamese:, , xương hàm
 * Volapük:, ,
 * Waigali: ëlikir
 * West Frisian:, ,
 * Xhosa: umhlathi
 * Yakut: сыҥаах
 * Yoruba: párì-ẹ̀ẹ̀kẹ́
 * Zhuang: hwk
 * Zulu:


 * Bashkir: яңаҡ
 * Bulgarian: челюст
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: ყბა
 * Gothic: 𐌺𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌿𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γνάθος
 * Ojibwe: indaamikan
 * Plautdietsch: Kjeew
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: giall
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: škrjono
 * Thai:


 * Bulgarian: челюст
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Irish: draid
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: čeľusť


 * Esperanto:
 * German: (1,2, lower),  (2,3),  (2,3),  (7)
 * Korean: (1-6)
 * Serbo-Croatian: (1,2),  (1,2),  (1,2)
 * Telugu: (1, 2, 3)

Verb

 * 1)  To assail or abuse by scolding.
 * 2) * 1933,, The Spiral Staircase (Some Must Watch), Chapter 4,
 * He built the Summit, so as to have no neighbours. And Lady Warren couldn't abide It. She was always jawing him about it, and they had one awful quarrel, in his study.
 * 1)  To scold; to clamor.
 * 2)  To talk; to converse.
 * 3)  (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
 * 1)  (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
 * 1)  (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.

Etymology 2
, see Jew's harp for more.

Adjective

 * 1) (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump)

Pronoun

 * 1)  (second personal pronoun plural possessive)