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yacht
1557, yeaghe "a light, fast-sailing ship," probably from Norw. jaght, from M.L.G. jacht, shortened form of jachtschip "fast pirate ship," lit. "ship for chasing," from jacht "chase," from jagen "to chase, hunt," from O.H.G. jagon, from P.Gmc. *jagojanan.
Yahtzee
dice game, 1957, proprietary (E.S. Lowe Co., N.Y.), apparently based on yacht.
spinnaker
"large triangular sail," 1866, either a derivative of spin in the sense of "go rapidly" or a corrupt pronunciation of Sphinx, which was the name of the first yacht known to carry this type of sail.
yaw
"to fall away from the line of a course," 1546, from O.N. jaga, O.Dan. jæge "to drive, chase," from M.L.G. jagen (see yacht).
jäger
"Ger. sharpshooter," 1776, from Ger., lit. "huntsman," from jagen "to hunt," from O.H.G. jagon, related to O.Fris. jagia, Du. jagen "to hunt," O.N. jaga "to drive, to move to and fro" (see yacht). Applied to riflemen and sharpshooters in the Ger. and Austrian armies.
regatta
1652, name of a boat race among gondoliers held on the Grand Canal in Venice, from It. (Venetian dialect) regatta, lit. "contention for mastery," from regattare "to compete, haggle, sell at retail," possibly from recatare. The general meaning of "boat race, yacht race" is usually considered to have begun with a race on the Thames by that name June 23, 1775 (cf. OED), but there is evidence that it was used as early as 1768.
hull (2)
"body of a ship," 1571, perhaps from hull (1) on fancied resemblance of ship keels to open peapods (cf. L. carina "keel of a ship," originally "shell of a nut;" Gk. phaselus "light passenger ship, yacht," lit. "bean pod;" Fr. coque "hull of a ship, shell of a walnut or egg"). Alternate etymology is from M.E. hoole "ship's keel" (c.1440), from the same source as hold (n.).
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