English
flyboat
Flyboat comes from Dutch vlieboot ‘a light flat-bottomed cargo vessel with two or…’.
- Dutchc. 1500–presentvlieboot‘a light flat-bottomed cargo vessel with two or three masts, a flyboat’
- Englishtodayflyboat
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presentvlieboot‘a light flat-bottomed cargo vessel with two or three masts, a flyboat’
- Englishtodayflyboat
Proto-Indo-European *plew- ‘to fly, flow, run’
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Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ ‘flying insect, fly’
Proto-West Germanic *fleugā ‘fly’
Old English flēge ‘a fly’
Middle English fflye
English fly
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- ‘to break’
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Proto-Germanic *baitaz ‘boat’
Proto-West Germanic *bait ‘boat’
Old English bāt
Middle English bot
English boat
Every English word from Dutch vlieboot
Today it means
noun A large flat-bottomed coasting vessel, formerly found in Holland, Spain and Portugal.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch vlieboot / flyboat