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Etymology

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Apparently a figurative extension of Early Scots junt (joint), Middle English joynt, junte (joint (of the body, where the bones meet)), perhaps influenced by junk. Compare jawn.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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junt (plural junts)

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) A fair-sized piece or amount; a chunk (of anything, especially meat or other food).
    • 1808, Walter Watson (of Chryston.), Miscellaneous Scotch Poetry, page 71:
      Whare ancient poets us'd to dine / On junts o' rhymin skill; / Ye might to latest ages shine, An' countless pages fill, []
    • 1834, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, volume 25, page 138:
      When they were partin with Lady Killdun, she called Ned Burke aside, an (as Donald said) gave him a junt of butter betwixt two fardles of bread, which Ned put into a wallet they had for carrying some little baggage.
    • 1894, Donald Macleod, Past worthies of the Lennox, a garland of their droll sayings and doings, page 176:
      She helped her mother now and then to junts of salt meat out of her master's barrel.
    • 1903, Seumas MacManus, A Lad of the O'Friels, page 43:
      "Throw a couple of turf and a junt of fir on the fire, Dinny, a thaisge, afore ye sit down," he said.
    • 1939, P. Gallagher, My Story, page 98:
      A fine bowl of tea and a junt of flour bread.
  2. (Memphis African-American slang) Thing, item.
    • 2000, Three 6 Mafia, " Pass That Junt":
      Pass that junt, pass that junt nigga
    • 2013 October 28, Katori Hall, Katori Hall Plays One: Hoodoo Love; Saturday Night/Sunday Morning; The Mountaintop; Hurt Village, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 261:
      [The play Hurt Village. Page 261:] These junts is heavy. [] [Page 326:] 'cause he never stop believin' that one day thar junt was gone be blowed off.

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin iūnctus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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junt (feminine junta, masculine plural junts, feminine plural juntes)

  1. joined

Derived terms

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Adverb

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junt

  1. together
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Noun

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junt m (plural junts)

  1. joint
  2. grout, grouting

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unknown, seems a newer loan from an unknown source or an internal creation.

Noun

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junt n (plural junturi)

  1. gun, firearm

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative junt juntul junturi junturile
genitive-dative junt juntului junturi junturilor
vocative juntule junturilor

References

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  • Paliga, Sorin (2024) An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language, New York: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 338
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