nacelle

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*néh₂us“a boat”
2. Latin · derived fromnāvis“a ship”
3. Late Latin · derived fromnaucella
4. Old French · derived fromnacele
5. Middle French · borrowed fromnacelle“rowing boat, skiff”
6. French · borrowed fromnacelle“rowing boat, skiff; gondola (of a hot-air balloon, etc.); structure on an aircraft to house an engine”
7. English todaynacelle

PIE word *néh₂us Borrowed from French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff; gondola (of a hot-air balloon, etc.); structure on an aircraft to house an engine”), Middle French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff”), from Old French nacele, from Late Latin naucella, nāvicella (“small boat or ship”), from Latin nāvis (“a ship”) (from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“a boat”)) + -ella (diminutive suffix). Cognates * Anglo-Norman naucele, naucle (“small boat”) * Late Latin nacella (“small boat”)

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