junc

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʒuŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʒuŋk]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒuŋk]

junc m (plural juncs)

1. Alternative form of jonc

• “junc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “junc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old High German jung, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, whence also Old Saxon jung, giung, Old English ġeong, Old Norse ungr, Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍃 (juggs). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁en-.

junc

1. young

• Alemannic German: jung, jungu, jungà, junhs, jòng
• Bavarian: junk

  Cimbrian: jung, djung, junk

  Mòcheno: jung

• Central Franconian: jonk

  Hunsrik: jung

  Luxembourgish: jonk

• German: jung
• Pennsylvania German: jung
• Vilamovian: jung
• Yiddish: יונג (yung)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “junc”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

Inherited from Latin juvencus, iuvencus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós, derived from *h₂yuh₁en-, derived from the root *h₂ey- (“vital force”, “life”).

junc m (plural junci, feminine equivalent juncă)

1. a young bullock

   Synonyms: mânzat, tuluc (regional)

• juncă

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