Port. lanchara/lancha, Sp. lancha, It. lancia ‘barca leggeraʼ e voci correlate

The article deals with four types of 16th/17th-century Romance boat-terms: (1) Port. ‘a kind of small rowing boatʼ, known in South-East Asia since the early 16th century, from Malay (< ‘to pass, proceed swiftly, quicklyʼ); (2) Port. , a shortened variant of , which originated in Portuguese (1553)...

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