ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “J ” - it is a latecomer to the alphabet and originally had no sound value. The letter itself began as a scribal modification of Roman -i- in continental Medieval Latin.
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “virgin” - c. 1200, "unmarried or chaste woman, from Latin virginem "maiden, unwedded girl or woman," "fresh, unused," marriageable girl," figurative sense of "pure, untainted”