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This word actually was originally formed in Dutch (hangmat, also from hamaka) and was borrowed by German slightly later.
by gpvos 11y ago
This word actually was originally formed in Dutch (hangmat, also from hamaka) and was borrowed by German slightly later.
- masswerk 11y agoYes, this also what I once learned at university, but newer accounts tend to skip this step of transition.
- gpvos 11y agoWhat I wrote was actually somewhat speculative. More recent Dutch etymology research ( http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/hangmat http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/hangmat ) says that there is an early German find Hengmatten [1627; Pfeifer], more than 40 years before the first Dutch find (1669). Still, Philippa et al. claim, the German must be a loan translation from Dutch, both because it is a sailor's term in the Dutch Golden Age, and because a direct German derivation seems less plausible as it would have more sound changes.