canot

== 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ka.no/ === Noun === canot m (plural canots) dinghy (small boat) (Quebec) canoe Synonym: canoë ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Greek: κανό (kanó) Haitian Creole: kannòt → Turkish: kano === Further reading === “canot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === conta, tacon == 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