Everyday life

kayak

The Inuit hunter's skin boat, qajaq, reached English through the Danish missionaries and traders of Greenland; 20th-century canoe sport then made kayak an international word.

Weakest linkProbable

The road to English

From Danish to Norwegian

From Danish to German

From English to French

From English to Portuguese

From English to Japanese

From English to Korean

1740Greenlandic

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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