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noun a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos
verb travel in a small canoe
originBorrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0