barca.
small boat; bark, barge;
Meaning & usage
baris (a type of flat-bottomed freighter used on the Nile in Ancient Egypt)
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Egyptian bꜣjr Demotic Egyptian br Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare)der. Ancient Greek βᾶρῐς (bârĭs)der. Latin bāris Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Vulgar Latin -icusder. Vulgar Latin -ica Vulgar Latin *bārica Latin barca Late Latin, first attested in a late 2nd or early 3rd-century inscription in Balsa (ILS 5069). Surfaces again much later in Medieval Latin as barca, by that point a borrowing from Romance. Regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *bārica, from Latin bāris (“Egyptian shallow wide flat-bottomed river boat”), from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship”), b-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1
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