A variant or historical term for a type of small boat, ship, or canoe used in waterways.
Possibly from French canot or Spanish canoa, with Old World spelling variations. The root may connect to Arawakan or Caribbean languages via Spanish colonial contact.
English got 'canoe' from Caribbean languages through Spanish—canaut is a forgotten variant showing how the same borrowed word took different forms as it traveled through European languages!
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