Etymograph

English

G-funk

G-funk comes from English P-Funk ‘Parliament-Funkadelic’.

  1. English1500–presentP-Funk‘Parliament-Funkadelic’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2004G-funk

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentP-Funk‘Parliament-Funkadelic’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2004G-funk

Earliest quotation: 2004, Eithne Quinn, Columbia University Press: “The Chronic, and the other G-funk albums that followed,…”

Today it means

noun A kind of slow, melodic hip-hop music associated with California.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / English P-Funk / G-funk