ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “elect” - early 15c., "to choose for an office, position, or duty," from Latin electus, "to pick out, "to collect, gather." "those chosen by God" 🕎1 Peter 2:1-6 KJV
Discussion on Jamaican patrois’s origin from Irland_Scotland and a word on the Cockney dialect: WEST INDIAN STUDY, WHENCE THE “BLACK IRISH “ OF JAMAICA BY Joseph J. Williams , S.J 🕎Ezekiel 39,23-29 KJV