kayık

kayık = boat in Turkish

Turkish “kayık” (boat) and West Greenlandic “qajaq” (kayak) look and sound so similar. And their meanings are so close that it is hard to believe it but they are not cognates.

The word “kayık” comes from the Proto-Turkic words *kay-guk, *kay-gïk meaning “boat” / “oar”.
Descendants:
каик {kaik} in Bulgarian, Russian & Serbian
καικι {kaiki} in Greek
caicco in Italian
caïque in French
caique in English, Portuguese, Spanish
Kaik in German
kaik, kajik in Hungarian
kaik in Croatian
чайка {čajka} in Ukrainian
czajka in Polish
All of them meaning a wooden boat.

The word “qayaq” comes from the Proto-Eskimo word *qyaq.
Cognates:
qayaq, qayqx in Yup’ik languages
qayaq, ᖃᔭᖅ {qayaq} in Inuit languages
Descendants:
kayak in English & French
kajak in Czech, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish & Swedish
kájak in Slovak
Kajak in German
kajakk in Faroese
kajakki in Finnish
caiac in Romanian
cadhc in Irish
caidheag in Scottish
カヤック {kayakku} in Japanese
카약 {kayak} in Korean

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