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.)
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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In the Inuit language the name for a kayak is Qajaq. Also kayaks can be referred to as a canoe.
Kayak
It is Native American
inuit (greenland)
Ah, the word "kayak" comes from the Inuit people of Greenland. They used these small, sleek boats for hunting and transportation in icy waters. Isn't it fascinating how different cultures have unique ways of connecting with nature?
I think whatever the Eskimos spoke... I'm not sure.
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kayak
The English language words "parka" and "kayak" have no Spanish root.
no, a kayak is a kayak NOT a boat
The Greenland Eskimo's word for "small boat of skins", qayaq, moved over to the Danish wordkajak, which came to be an English word in 1757.
It is a kayak.