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Hammock — Word History
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 164GRADE Asupports
The bed word is Indigenous Caribbean—and its English look-alike is unrelated.
Hammock came through Spanish hamaca from Taíno hamaca. The southern U.S. terrain noun has a separate etymology.
hamaca
hamaca → hamaca → hammock
Word History — noun (1) and noun (2)Documents the Taíno-via-Spanish route and the separate terrain homonym.
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resolvedsupportsestablished
Are the suspended-bed and terrain senses of hammock one word?
No in the reviewed dictionary. The suspended bed comes from Spanish hamaca from Taíno; the southern U.S. terrain sense is tied to earlier English forms and a Germanic comparison.
Word History — noun (1) and noun (2)Gives separate etymologies for the suspended-bed and terrain homonyms.
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EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 317supportsestablished
hammock → hamaca
Present-Day English → Spanish · borrowing
- SOUND
- Spanish hamaca was adapted to English hammock with final consonant and vowel changes reflected in English spelling and pronunciation.
- MEANING
- The suspended sleeping net or bed retained its core function in English.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
Word History — noun (1), Etymology; First Known UseIdentifies Spanish hamaca from Taíno and reports 1626 for the suspended-bed sense.
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hammockSOURCE-REPORTED
hammock
English lexicographic first-use record for the suspended-bed sense of hammock
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hammock
English, terrain senselook-alike homonym with a separate Germanic comparison; not the Taíno-derived bed word
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stage 2supports
Spanish-speaking Atlantic world
Identifies Spanish as the immediate intermediary.
Word History — Spanish hamaca, from Taino · broadstage 3supports
Global English
Reports 1626 for the suspended-bed sense.
First Known Use — noun (1) · global070
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