esquif

French

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛs.kif/

Noun

esquif m (plural esquifs)

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

Further reading

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

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