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canot.

dinghy (small boat)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/ka.no/
  1. dinghy (small boat)

    masculine
  2. canoe

    Quebec · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Middle French canot (“little boat”, also “dugout”), partly continuing (in diminutive form) Old French cane (“boat, ship”), from Middle Low German kane (“boat”), from Old Saxon *kano, from Proto-West Germanic *kanō, from Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”) (compare German Kahn (“boat”)); and partly from an alteration of Middle French canoe (“dugout made from the trunk of a tree”), from Spanish canoa (“dugout canoe”). More at canard.

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