English

Junkspace

From junk + space.

A compound of junk + space

Proto-Italic *joinikos

Latin iuncus ‘rush, reed’

Old French jonc

Middle French jonc ‘rush’

Middle English jonk ‘a rush’

English junk

Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂- ‘to stretch’

Latin spatium ‘space’

Old French espace ‘space’

Anglo-Norman space

Middle English space

English space

Today it means

noun A highly commercialized environment that lacks any real value or meaning.

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

Etymograph / Junkspace