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- Title
More Nautical Etymologies.
- Authors
Sayers, William
- Abstract
The article presents the etymological histories of words related to nautical life, including tack, luff, beat to the windward, and cruise. He uses information from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) to show discuss the earliest usage of the words. The verb luff was first seen in the book 'Confessio Amantis" by John Gower to refer to the act of altering the course of a ship. The tack is traced to the Old Norse word "taka" and the Middle English word "takel." The word cruise comes from either the Germanic or the Romance languages. Topics include Anglo-Norman words, the Old Norse language, and changing definitions for nautical terms.
- Subjects
ETYMOLOGY; ENGLISH etymology; NAUTICAL terms; OXFORD English Dictionary; CONFESSIO Amantis (Book); GOWER, John, ca. 1325-1408; MIDDLE English etymology; OLD Norse language; ANGLO-Norman dialect; GERMANIC languages; ROMANCE languages
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2011, Vol 58, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjq249