Etymology of boat

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verb

To travel by boat. · To transport in a boat. · To transport (deport to a penal colony). · To place in a boat.

noun

A small, usually open craft used for travelling over water, propelled by oars, motor or wind. Usually contrasted with "ship". · A submarine. · A large, ocean-going ship. · A shallow jug used to serve sauces or other liquid foods.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *bʰóydos Proto-Germanic *baitaz Proto-West Germanic *bait Old English bāt Middle English bot English boat From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”). Old Norse bátr (whence Faroese and Icelandic bátur, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word. Compare typologically ship << Proto-Indo-European *skey-; Russian долблёнка (dolbljónka) (< долби́ть (dolbítʹ)), Russian чёлн (čoln) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)). False cognate of Sanskrit बेडा (beḍā).

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Root classification mention*bʰeyd-ine-pro
Inherited-form mentionbotenm
Inherited-form mentionbātang · boat
Inherited-form mention*baitgmw-pro
Inherited-form mention*baitazgem-pro
Derivation mention*bʰeyd-ine-pro · to break, split
Cognate mentionbeitnon · boat
Cognate mentionbeiteldum · little boat
Cognate mentionbátrnon
Cognate mentionbådda
Cognate mentionbootnl
Cognate mentionBootde
Cognate mentionbatèloc
Cognate mentionbateaufr
Cognate mentionबेडाsa

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      "båt",
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      "Boot",
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      "долблёнка",
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      "долби́ть",
      "долбить#Russian"
    ],
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      "чёлн",
      "чёлн#Russian"
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      "коло́ть",
      "колоть#Russian"
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      "बेडा",
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