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Kayaks were first used by Inuits (eskimos) to hunt and fish, they are "closed cockpit" meaning you sit in the boat, they then used to wear a seal skin "skirt" (spray deck) that was stiched to the boat, making it impossible to get out once the boat was capsized, hence the term "eskimo roll" in order to re-right the boat once capsized. Kayaks are different from Canoe's as these are "open cockpit" you sit or kneel in the boat and there isn't anything holding you in. Pocahontis stylee. (there are exceptions to this of course with white water canoes etc.)

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14y ago

I believe Kayak is an Inuit (Native Aboriginals located in what is now Alaska, United States of America) word.

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The English word kayak came to us in 1757 from the Danish word kajak, which derives from the Greenland Eskimo word qayaq.

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Kayak is a programming language in which every primitive operation, and hence every program, is invertible. Any Kayak procedure can be run either forwards or backwards, or even both within one invocation of the program. The syntax of Kayak is such that running a procedure in reverse is equivalent to running a characterwise reversal of that procedure forward.

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The word "kayak" comes from Asia, North America and Grenland.

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The word kayak is from the Greenlandic language.

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