junt

English

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒʌnt/

Noun

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

Etymology

Inherited from Latin iūnctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʒun]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʒunt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒunt]

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Adjective

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

1. joined

Derived terms

• juntament

Adverb

junt

1. together

Related terms

• ajuntar
• tot junt

Noun

junt m (plural junts)

1. joint
2. grout, grouting

Synonyms

• juntura

Further reading

• “junt”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “junt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “junt” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “junt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

junt n (plural junturi)

1. gun, firearm

Declension

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

References

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