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Hogan — Word History

AUTHOR / EDITOR
Merriam-Webster Editors
YEAR
2026
PUBLISHER
Merriam-Webster
DOI
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SOURCE TYPE
historical dictionary
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EDGE 357supportsestablished

hogan → hooghan

Present-Day English → Navajo / Diné bizaad · borrowing

SOUND
English hogan anglicizes Navajo hooghan, shortening the long vowel and regularizing the consonant and unstressed ending.
MEANING
A Diné home or dwelling term becomes the English label for the traditional structure.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Merriam-Webster · Navajo Word of the Day editors
Word History — Navajo hooghan

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hooghan → UNKNOWN

Navajo / Diné bizaad → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

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The reviewed sources establish hooghan but do not provide a specialist comparative Athabaskan reconstruction.
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The graph stops at the living Navajo word rather than promoting an unsourced internal split.
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Etymology stops at Navajo hooghan

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Two dwellings, unrelated source families

Tipi and hogan are English borrowings from Dakota and Navajo respectively. Their similar English cultural category does not make the words cognates: the source families are Siouan and Na-Dene.

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