Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·dutch ·1650s
Cruise
from kruisen
- Meaning
- To cross — to sail to and fro.
- Source word
- kruisen
- Route into English
- Dutch maritime vocabulary → English navy and merchant marine 17th c.; pleasure-cruise sense from 1900s.
- Arrived
- 1650s
English borrows.
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