War, law & rule

voodoo

Vodún, the Fon and Ewe word for a spirit or deity, travelled with enslaved people from Dahomey to Saint-Domingue, where it named a whole religion, and to Brazil's Candomblé; it reached English through the French of New Orleans.

Weakest linkProbable

The road to American English

From French to Haitian Creole

From Fon to Brazilian Portuguese

From American English to German

From American English to Spanish

From American English to Japanese

From American English to Russian

1700Fon

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

Export “voodoo”

Embed “voodoo”

Save “voodoo”

Export “voodoo”

Embed “voodoo”

Save “voodoo”