Caic
/keɪk/noun
A small sailing or rowing boat, especially one used in the eastern Mediterranean and near the Bosporus.
Did you know?Caic is an English variant of caique, whose ancestry leads to Turkish kayık, a word still used for a boat or small vessel in modern Turkish.
Etymological Timeline
Ottoman Turkish
Ottoman Turkish
kayık
“A boat or small vessel”
17th Century
French
caïque
“A light boat, especially one used in the eastern Mediterranean”
17th Century
English
caique
“A small Mediterranean boat”
18th Century
English
caic
“A variant spelling for a small boat”
Modern English
English
caic
“A small sailing or rowing boat, especially in the eastern Mediterranean”