English

junkroom

From junk + room.

A compound of junk + room

Proto-Italic *joinikos

Latin iuncus ‘rush, reed’

Old French jonc

Middle French jonc ‘rush’

Middle English jonk ‘a rush’

English junk

Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH- ‘to root’

Proto-Germanic *rūmą

Proto-West Germanic *rūm

Old English rūm ‘room’

Middle English roum ‘room’

English room

Today it means

noun A room for storing junk.

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

Etymograph / junkroom