junta
‘a congress, council’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. juncta < Span., Port. junta ‘council, meeting, convention’ < Med.Lat. iuncta ‘joint’ < Lat. iuncta < iungere ‘to join together’ < juhn < yeug- < Tamil okka
junta
English words derived from Tamil okka connoting ‘yoke’