giunca

See also: giuncã

Italian

Alternative forms

• giunco, giuncho, ioncque (archaic)
• giunchi, zonchi (in the plural, archaic)

Etymology

From Portuguese junco, from Malay jong, from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong), from Old Javanese joṅ (“ship”), ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂luuŋ ~ *d₂luŋ ~ *d₂luəŋ ~ *d₂ləŋ (“boat”). Compare English junk, Dutch jonk, French jonque, Spanish junco.

Noun

giunca f (plural giunche)

1. (nautical) junk (vessel)

Descendants

• → French: jonque
• → German: Junke, Juncke, Dschunke
• → Latin: junkus, (New Latin) iunca, (New Latin) iuncus
  • → Dutch: ionco, iunco
  • → Italian: ioncque
    • → French: ionct
    • → Spanish: iuncque

Further reading

• “junk, n.³”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2024.

Anagrams

• cugina