• funko, funco

From Proto-West Germanic *funkō, from Proto-Germanic *funkô.

funcho m

1. spark

• Middle High German: vunke
  • German: Funke
  • Luxembourgish: Fonk
  • Yiddish: פֿונק (funk)

• fiolho, fiunlho, fruncho (dialectal)

From Old Galician-Portuguese fuuncho, feuncho, from Vulgar Latin *fēnuclum, from Late Latin fēnuculum (“fennel”), a diminutive of Latin fēnum. Compare Galician fiúncho, also fiollo, Spanish hinojo.

• Hyphenation: fun‧cho

funcho m (plural funchos)

1. fennel (Foeniculum vulgare, a plant)

   Synonym: erva-doce

2. fennel (bulb, leaves, or stalks eaten as a vegetable)
3. fennel (spice used in cooking)

• funchal
• Funchal

• feno

• “funcho”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “funcho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026