barque

The story

1. Egyptian · derived frombꜣjr“transport ship, type of fish”
2. Demotic Egyptian · derived frombr
3. Coptic · derived fromⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ“small boat”
4. Ancient Greek · derived fromβᾶρις
5. Vulgar Latin · derived frombarica
6. Late Latin · derived frombarca
7. Italian · derived frombarca
8. Middle French · derived frombarque
9. Middle English · inherited frombarke“boat”
10. English todaybarque

From Middle English barke (“boat”), borrowed from Middle French barque, itself borrowed from Italian barca or a Medieval Latin equivalent, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris) 'Egyptian boat', from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”), b-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1. Doublet of bark, barge and baris. Possibly cognate with Spanish barco.

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