Etymology

sloop

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Today it means: A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail. Full definition →

Dutch sloep ← Middle French chaloupe
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The story

  1. Middle Frenchchaloupe
  2. Dutchsloep
  3. English todaysloop

Borrowed from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and shallop.

Words from the same roots

Dutchsloep all →

shallop

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.