English
shallop
Shallop comes from French chaloupe ‘launch’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentchaloupe‘launch’
- Englishearliest quotation 1590shallop
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentchaloupe‘launch’
- Englishearliest quotation 1590shallop
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book III, Canto VII: “Into the same she leapt, and with the ore…”.
The story
Borrowed from French chaloupe, possibly from Dutch sloep.
Linked words
through Dutch sloep ‘a small boat, with oars and historically often…’
Today it means
noun A shallow-draft riverboat.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French chaloupe / shallop