Where does “longboat” come from?
Longboat derives from English long and boat, with boat descending from Middle English boot, Old English lang, and Latin buttis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰeyd-.
longboat (English): Among the boats carried by a ship the largest,...
Definitions
- Among the boats carried by a ship the largest,...
Ancestry of “longboat”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | long | Having much distance from one terminating point... |
| 2 | English | longitude | Angular distance measured west or east of the... |
| 3 | Old French | longitude | — |
| 4 | Latin | longitūdō | — |
| 5 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 6 | Latin | -ē | — |
| 7 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 8 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 9 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
Words derived from “longboat”