esquif

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EtymologyEdit

From Middle French esquif, from Old Italian schifo (“small boat”), from Lombardic skif (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“boat, ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Old High German skif (“boat, ship”), Old English scip (“small craft, boat”). More at ship.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.kif/

NounEdit

esquif m (plural esquifs)

1. (literary) skiff (any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)

Further readingEdit

• “esquif” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).