adjust English · revision 13154

− It is Middle English ajusten, [[bor|fro|ajoster|t=to add, assemble, calibrate]], ajuster,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from Vulgar Latin *adjuxtāre, to bring near,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from Latin ad-, to, and juxtā, near, close by (from the PIE root of [[yoke]]).^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Cresswell 2021) In the 16th century French refashioned it as adjuster, as if from juste, right (see [[just]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002) and English reborrowed the word in that form before 1611;^(Barnhart 1988) modern French has ajouter, to add.^(Etymonline)