kayak

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos
verb travel in a small canoe

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.

I daresay the Esquimaux would join with you in the wish, however, for their kayaks and oomiaks are better adapted for a calm than a stormy sea." — The World of Ice, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
In the long nights they sang, and they bowed to the gods in boulder and stream, and set out in the little kayaks on the Arctic seas to hunt the great solemn walrus, or they set off in sledges through the pathless wastes. — Changeling, and Other Stories, Donn Byrne

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