júkka
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”). The word was applied to plants of the genus Yucca (now the main sense), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused them with the cassava.
Noun edit
júkka f (genitive singular júkku, nominative plural júkkur)
- yucca
- Synonym: pálmalilja
Declension edit
declension of júkka
Further reading edit
- “júkka” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)