Business name word

Boat

Vessel for travelling by water.

Pronunciation: /bəʊ̯t/, /boʊ̯t/

What “Boat” means

Noun

  1. Vessel for travelling by water.
  2. Vessel for travelling by water.
  3. Vessel for travelling by water.
  4. A shallow jug used to serve sauces or other liquid foods.
  5. A vessel used to store the incense to be burned during a service; an incense boat.

Verb

  1. To travel by boat.
  2. To transport in a boat.
  3. To transport (deport to a penal colony).
  4. To place in a boat.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *bʰóydos Proto-Germanic *baitaz Proto-West Germanic *bait Old English bāt Middle English bot English boat From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”). Old Norse bátr (whence Faroese and Icelandic bátur, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word. Compare typologically ship << Proto-Indo-European *skey-; Russian долблёнка (dolbljónka) (< долби́ть (dolbítʹ)), Russian чёлн (čoln) (akin

Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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