Trade, money & letters

junk (ship)

Old Javanese joṅ named the great ocean ships of the archipelago; Arab traders, Portuguese and Dutch passed the word on — Spanish junco, French jonque, Dutch jonk, German Dschunke — and English came to use it only for Chinese ships.

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