English
steamfunk
Blend of steampunk + funk.
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- ‘smoke’
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Vulgar Latin fūmicāre
Old Northern French fungier ‘to smoke’
French funquer
French dialectal
English funk
The story
Popularized by the 2013 short story anthology Steamfunk! co-edited by Milton Davis and Balogun Ojetade.
Today it means
noun A subgenre of science fiction that combines elements of steampunk with a focus on Black culture and Afrofuturism.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / steamfunk