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hammock

Columbus saw Taíno people sleeping in hanging nets called hamacas in 1492; sailors everywhere adopted the bed, Dutch speakers reshaped the word into hangmat, 'hanging mat', and French hamac went on to Russian and Turkish.

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From French to Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

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