English

abjunction

Abjunction comes from English junction ‘to join’.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

A compound of ab- ‘away’ + junction ‘to join’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo ‘off, away’

English ab-

Proto-Indo-European *yewg- ‘to join, to yoke, to tie together’

Proto-Indo-European *yunégti ~ *yungénti

Proto-Italic *jungō ‘to join’

Latin iungō ‘join, attach together’

Latin iūnctiō ‘union, joining, uniting’

Every English word from English junction

noun The creation of spores by cutting off portions of the sporophore by the growth of septa; abstriction.

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