English
junkheap
From junk + heap.
Proto-Italic *joinikos
Latin iuncus ‘rush, reed’
Old French jonc
Middle French jonc ‘rush’
Middle English jonk ‘a rush’
English junk
Proto-Indo-European *koupos ‘hill’
Proto-Germanic *haupaz ‘heap, pile’
Proto-West Germanic *haup ‘heap, pile’
Old English hēap
Middle English hepe ‘crowd, multitude, assembly’
English heap
Today it means
noun A collection or pile of unwanted things
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / junkheap