It is Native American
The Greenland Eskimo's word for "small boat of skins", qayaq, moved over to the Danish wordkajak, which came to be an English word in 1757.
The Cree (Algonquian) language is the origin. See the link.
the word kayak comes from Asia, North America and Gr eenlandAns 2The word 'kayak' comes from the word 'inuktitut' in the Aleut/ Inuit group of languages. It's original meaning was 'man's boat' .( I live in Canada and we often hear words in that language or encounter them in crosswords.)
It's word origin is the Latin eboreus - creamy-white in color.
The word "plateau" is derived from the French language.
No, Origin is where something came from originally language is what cultures speak.
From the Latin language word imprendere.
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