canot

Meaning

1. dinghy (small boat)
2. canoe

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ka.no/

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.

Sentences

Un canot d’écorce l’attendait à cent pas de la chute .

A bark canoe was waiting for him a hundred steps from the fall.