hackmatack

Etymology
Believed to derive from, though no specific etymon has been found. The term is first attested in the 1760s–90s, when it was spelled hakmantak  and referred to dense forest.

In European languages there was contamination between, from Nahuatl, and various Algonquian words containing the final , including the sources of and , as was already recognized by Chamberlain 1902. This makes the precise Algonquian words involved difficult to recover. Compare the late 19th century 🇨🇬 term.

Noun

 * 1) A larch, a tree of the species.
 * 2) A balsam poplar, a tree of the species.