köken: Alteration of Hamach, Hamaco, which is borrowed, probably via earlier Dutch hamak, from Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka. See English hammock for more. The Spanish form was reinterpreted as “hang-matt” by popular etymology both in German and in Dutch (see hangmat, also attested as hangmak). The modern German word is thus analysable as a compound of hängen + Matte. Such an adapted form is…
cradle, crib (bed for a baby) · cradle, birthplace, place of origin · arch, vault
çekim: çoğul berceaux
köken: From Old French berçuel (diminutive of bers) from Vulgar Latin berciolum diminutive of *bertium, from Gaulish *berta, from Proto-Celtic *bertā, variant of *bereti (“to carry”). Compare Old Irish bert (“bundle”). Cognate with Catalan bressol, Portuguese berço and Galician berce.
köken: From Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka, which changed to ham(m)ak and then, via hangmak, to hangmat, literally “hanging mat”. Modified by influence of hangen (“to hang”) + mat (“mat”). This development is a case of popular etymology. The first attestation of such an adapted form is in a German text; it is nevertheless believed that the German form is indeed borrowed from Dutch. See Hängematte…
cradle, crib · birthplace · a type of short cannon
çekim: çoğul berços
eş: berce
köken: Borrowed from French berceau, ultimately from Vulgar Latin berciolum, diminutive of *bertium, from Gaulish *berta, from Proto-Celtic *bertā, variant of *bereti (“to carry”). Compare Old Irish bert (“bundle”). Cognate with Catalan bressol.
A hammock; a canopy swing; a freestanding garden furniture with a suspended couch.
çekim: çoğul hammockar · tamlayan hammocks
köken: Unadapted borrowing from English hammock. Derived from Spanish hamaca. Ultimately derived from Taíno *hamaka. First attested in 1853. Doublet of hängmatta (“hammock; suspended bed”).
köken: From Proto-Finnic *kätküt, equivalent to kätkeä (“to hide, conceal”) + -yt. Cognate to Karelian kätyt and Estonian kätki. Mostly displaced (at least in the standard language) by kehto.
köken: Borrowed from a Chuvash-type Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). From Proto-Turkic *bẹĺčig (“cradle”). Compare Chuvash пелче (pelč̬e, “swaddling clothes”) and Bashkir бишек (bişek, “cradle”), Turkish beşik (“cradle”).