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From Wikipedia.org: The word "kayak" means "man's boat" or "hunter's boat", and native kayaks were a very personal craft, built by the man who would use them (with assistance from his wife, who would sew the skins) fitting his measures, for maximum maneuverability. A special skin jacket, Tuilik, was then laced to the kayak, creaing a waterproof seal. This made the eskimo roll the preferred method of regaining posture after turning upside down (from the kayaking point of view, it's not a capsize until you come out of the boat), especially as few Eskimos could swim; their waters are too cold for a swimmer to survive for very long.
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It is the Inuit word ... the word we use is just the anglisized spelling for the way it is pronounced in Inuktatut ... they invented this type of boat, and we use their word for it.
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Ohhh maybe the person who invented it was called Kay and she talked a lot.
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It is an ancient word from Greenland eskimos kajakka which means "small boat of skins". Then the Danes landed on Greenland and they started using the word and changed it slightly to kajak as early as 1750s. But their 'j' is pronounced like English 'y'.
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