Trade, money & letters

cruise

Dutch kruisen meant 'to cross' and so 'to sail to and fro' across a stretch of sea; English took it in the age of privateers, and the word ultimately goes back to Latin crux, like French croiser. The 20th-century cruise liner then carried English cruise into Russian, Japanese and Korean.

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The road to English

From Latin to Old French, French

From English to Russian

From English to Japanese

From English to Korean

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