boat

A1 Topic:Maritime & Sailing

US /ˈboʊ̯t/ UK /ˈbəʊ̯t/ See IPA manual

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Sounds like both /θ/ vs /t/ Sounds like vote /v/ vs /b/

Freq #872

Meanings

1

noun
A small vehicle for travelling on water.

We rowed the boat across the calm lake.
2

verb
To travel or ride in a boat.

We boat on the river every summer.
3

noun
A dish shaped like a boat, used for serving sauce.

Pass me the gravy boat, please.

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1 noun · a small vehicle for... craft vessel ship

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Forms boatedboatingboats

Derived forms aeroboatairboatautoboatbareboatboat-hookboat-inboat-pullerboatableboatageboatbearerboatbillboatbound

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packet boat
a boat used to transport mail

Noun + noun
gravy boat
a small pouring dish, often shaped like a boat, used to serve gravy

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Etymology

From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”). Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word. Compare typologically ship << Proto-Indo-European *skey-; Russian долблёнка (dolbljó…

*bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European bot Middle English bāt Old English *bait Proto-West Germanic *baitaz Proto-Germanic

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Maritime & Sailing Transportation

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# boat

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /ˈboʊ̯t/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈbəʊ̯t/
**Frequency rank:** 872

## Meanings
1. A small vehicle for travelling on water.
2. To travel or ride in a boat.
3. A dish shaped like a boat, used for serving sauce.

## Examples
- We rowed the boat across the calm lake.
- We boat on the river every summer.
- Pass me the gravy boat, please.

## Derived Forms
- aeroboat
- airboat
- autoboat
- bareboat
- boat-hook
- boat-in
- boat-puller
- boatable
- boatage
- boatbearer
- boatbill
- boatbound

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *bʰeyd-
- Root: bot
- Root: bāt
- Root: *bait
- Root: *baitaz

## Etymology
From Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”). Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word. Compare typologically ship << Proto-Indo-European *skey-; Russian долблёнка (dolbljó…

## AI Etymology
Boat comes from Middle English bot, boot, boet, boyt (“boat”), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”) (whence also fissure via Latin). Cognate with Old Norse beit (“boat”), Middle Dutch beitel (“little boat”). Old Norse bátr (whence Icelandic bátur, Norwegian båt, Danish båd), Dutch boot, German Boot, Occitan batèl and French bateau are all ultimately borrowings from the Old English word.

## Topics
- Maritime & Sailing
- Transportation

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