cangia.
a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips
Meaning & usage
a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Arabic قَنْجَة (qanja), shortened from Ottoman Turkish قانجهباش (kancabaş, “ship of a curved prow”) from قانجه (kanca, “hook”) + باش (baş, “prow”), so called because of its prow being curved like a hook.
inflection of cangiare: third-person singular present indicative
inflection of cangiare: second-person singular imperative
Where this word comes from
Old Italian doublet of cambiare, via Old French cangier, ultimately from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre, infinitive of cambiō (“to exchange”), from Gaulish cambion (“change”), from Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”).
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