EDUCATE ME PLURK and then I will sleep. Where does the word ZOMBIE come from.

Like whodafuck was like THIS WORD IS HOW WE DO

Voodun? HMN

So when did it start meaning the undead?

And that's what sparked it as being related to undead?

I ask because one of my first graders asked me and I was like UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....... we probably grabbed it from another language..?

But that's all I could guess

Oh huh so that kinda gradually shifted it?

Oh I found a thing

But that sounds a little different

HUH.

Knowing English, it usually is :c

Maybe like ... 9 times out of 10