Hängematte

Etymology
Alteration of, , which is borrowed, probably via earlier , from , from. See 🇨🇬 for more.

The Spanish form was reinterpreted as “hang-matt” by both in German and in Dutch (see, also attested as ). The modern German word is thus analysable as a compound of. Such an adapted form is attested in German earlier than in Dutch, but the origin could be in either language. The formal argument (Dutch being closer to,  than German Hängematte) should not be overestimated since Hängematte is expectably a secondary adaptation of a dialectal intermediate form (in order to accord with the words and morphology of standard German).

Noun

 * 1) hammock