yacht
English
/jɒt/, /jɑt/
noun
Definitions
- A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
- Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
Etymology
Derived from Dutch, Flemish jacht (hunt, yacht, hunting, fast sailing boat, pursuit).
Origin
Dutch (Brabantic)
jacht
Gloss
hunt, yacht, hunting, fast sailing boat, pursuit
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
🦌
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aeroyacht English
- board English
- folk English
- megayacht English
- miniyacht English
- superyacht English
- yachtboard English
- yachter English
- yachtful English
- yachtie English
- yachtless English
- yachtlike English
- yachtman English
- yachtmanship English
- yachtsfolk English
- yachtsman English
- yachtsmanship English
- yachtswoman English
- yachty English
- Jacht German
- yacht Italian
- adviesjacht Dutch, Flemish
- drijfjacht Dutch, Flemish
- heksenjacht Dutch, Flemish
- jacht Dutch, Flemish
- jachtgeweer Dutch, Flemish
- jachthaven Dutch, Flemish
- jachthond Dutch, Flemish
- jachthoorn Dutch, Flemish
- jachthuis Dutch, Flemish
- jachtklok Dutch, Flemish
- jachtluipaard Dutch, Flemish
- jachtopziener Dutch, Flemish
- jachtseizoen Dutch, Flemish
- jachtstuk Dutch, Flemish
- jachtvalk Dutch, Flemish
- jachtvliegtuig Dutch, Flemish
- klopjacht Dutch, Flemish
- motorjacht Dutch, Flemish
- plezierjacht Dutch, Flemish
- valkenjacht Dutch, Flemish
- walvisjacht Dutch, Flemish
- yacht French
- yachtsman French
- yate Spanish, Castilian
- jekt Norwegian Bokmål
- yacht Norwegian Bokmål
- yacht Swedish
- ヨット Japanese
- jekt Norwegian Nynorsk
- yacht Norwegian Nynorsk
- yeaghe Middle English
- يخت Arabic
- iot Catalan, Valencian
- iaht Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- γιοτ Greek (modern)
- jacht Middle Dutch
- jagōd Old High German
- jag Afrikaans
- yacht Norman
- yate Tagalog
- *jagōþu gmw-pro
- *jagot Old Dutch
- jacht Middle Low German
- io̧o̧t Marshallese
- *jacht Old Frisian
- yate Bikol Central