júkka
Icelandic
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editjúkka f (genitive singular júkku, nominative plural júkkur)
- yucca
- Synonym: pálmalilja
Declension
editdeclension of júkka
Further reading
edit- “júkka” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)