The story
- Latin · derived fromiuncus“reed, rush”
- Spanish · borrowed fromjunco“reed, rush”
- English todayjunco
Borrowed from Spanish junco (“reed, rush”), from Latin iuncus (“reed, rush”). Doublet of juncus and possibly junk.
Words from the same roots
Latiniuncus all →
junket
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.