English
dory
Dory may come from Miskito; the Miskito form is not named.
- Miskitomodernform not nameduncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1897dory
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Miskitomodernform not nameduncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1897dory
Earliest quotation: 1897, Rudyard Kipling: “From every schooner, dories were being dropped into the…”
The story
Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.
Another origin of dory
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdeauratus‘gilded’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400doree
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500dorry‘The European dory (Zeus faber)’
- Englishtodaydory
Another origin of dory
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dóru‘tree’reconstructed
- Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCEsame form‘tree’reconstructed
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEδόρυdóru‘wood, tree, stem’
- Englishtodaydory
Today it means
noun A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / dory