yunque

Spanish

Alternative forms

• ayunque (early modern, now obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Spanish yunque, with metathesis from incue, itself from Vulgar Latin *incŭde, from Latin incūdem. The Old Spanish term, like the Latin etymon, was feminine. In the early modern period, a variant ayunque appeared, due to reanalysis with the article (la yunque > el ayunque), producing the complete change in gender observed in the modern form.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝunke/ [ˈɟ͡ʝũŋ.ke]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝunke/ [ˈɟ͡ʝũŋ.ke]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃunke/ [ˈʃũŋ.ke]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒunke/ [ˈʒũŋ.ke]

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• Rhymes: -unke
• Syllabification: yun‧que

Noun

yunque m (plural yunques)

1. anvil

See also

• martillo
• estribo

Further reading

• “yunque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014