Etymograph

English

schuit

Schuit comes from Dutch schuit ‘a boat or small ship, usually a flat-bottomed…’, and goes back to Old Dutch skūta.

  1. Old Dutchc. 500–1150skūta1
  2. Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500schute1
  3. Dutchc. 1500–presentschuit2‘a boat or small ship, usually a flat-bottomed one used for inland navigation or less…’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1751schuit2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Dutch schuit
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English schuit
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […]: “Peregrine […] next day embarked, with his companions, in…”.

Lineage

  1. Old Dutchc. 500–1150skūtaWiktionary, Dutch schuit
  2. Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500schuteWiktionary, Dutch schuit
  3. Dutchc. 1500–presentschuitWiktionary, English schuit‘a boat or small ship, usually a flat-bottomed one used for inland navigation or less…’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1751schuitWiktionary, English schuit. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […]: “Peregrine […] next day embarked, with his companions, in…”

Linked words

through Middle Dutch schute

shout

Today it means

noun A flat-bottomed Dutch river-boat; a barge.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “schuit”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Dutch schuit. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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