Spunk
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mid 16th century (in the sense ‘a spark, vestige’): of unknown origin; perhaps a blend of spark1 and obsolete funk ‘spark’.
wiktionary
1530, blend of spark + funk(obsolete, “spark”). Also, merging with spunck, 1582, ultimately from Middle Irish sponc, from Latin spongia(“sponge”).
Funk(“spark, touchwood”) is from Middle English funke, fonke(“spark”), from Old English *funce(“spark”), *fanca, from Proto-Germanic *funkô, *fankô(“spark”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peng-(“to shine”), and is akin to Middle Low German funke, fanke(“spark”), Middle Dutch vonke(“spark”), Old High German funcho, funko(“spark”), German Funke(“spark”).
etymonline
spunk (n.)
1530s, "a spark," Scottish, from Gaelic spong "tinder, pith, sponge," from Latin spongia (see sponge (n.)). The sense of "courage, pluck, mettle" is first attested 1773. A similar sense evolution took place in cognate Irish sponnc "sponge, tinder, spark; courage, spunk." Vulgar slang sense of "seminal fluid" is recorded from c. 1888.
