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French
Etymology
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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Noun
canot m (plural canots)
- dinghy (small boat)
- (Quebec) canoe
- Synonym: canoë
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Middle French
Etymology
First known attestation 1599, either from cane + -ot or as an alteration of canoe (modern French canoë), or a combination of both. See above.
Noun
canot m (plural canots)
- small boat made from a tree trunk