sailing

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• /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/
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From Middle English saylinge, seilinge, variants of sailende, seilende; equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zeilend (“sailing”).

From Middle English seyling, sayling, from Old English seġling, seġlung (“sailing”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglingu, *seglungu, from Proto-Germanic *siglingō (“sailing”); equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Middle Low German sēgelinge (“sailing”), Swedish segling (“sailing”), Icelandic sigling (“sailing”).

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: Lundrim — travelling by ship
• Bulgarian: ветроходен (vetrohoden) — travelling by ship
• Esperanto: veladi — travelling by ship
• Esperanto: navigi — travelling by ship
• Esperanto: lofi — travelling by ship
• Esperanto: ŝipiri — travelling by ship
• Finnish: purjehtiva — travelling by ship
• Finnish: purjehdus- — travelling by ship
• German: segeln — travelling by ship
• Hebrew: שַׁיִט (shayit) — travelling by ship
• Norwegian: seilende — travelling by ship
• Polish: żeglować — travelling by ship
• Spanish: velerista — travelling by ship
• Swedish: seglande — travelling by ship
• Tagalog: paglalayag — travelling by ship
• Arabic: إِبْحَار (ʔibḥār) — motion across water
• Bulgarian: ветроходство (vetrohodstvo) — motion across water
• Catalan: navegació a vela — motion across water
• Chinese Mandarin: 航行 (hángxíng) — motion across water
• Czech: plachtění — motion across water
• Dutch: zeilen — motion across water
• Esperanto: velado — motion across water
• Esperanto: lofado — motion across water
• Esperanto: navigado — motion across water
• Esperanto: ŝipiro — motion across water
• Finnish: purjehtiminen — motion across water
• French: navigation la voile — motion across water
• French: navigation à voile — motion across water
• Galician: vela — motion across water
• German: Segeln — motion across water
• Greek: ιστιοπλοΐα (istioploḯa) — motion across water
• Hebrew: שֵׁיט מִפְרָשִׂים (sheit mifrasim) — motion across water
• Hungarian: vitorlázás — motion across water
• Italian: navigazione — motion across water
• Japanese: 帆走 (hansō) — motion across water
• Korean: 항해 (hanghae) — motion across water
• Latin: velificatio — motion across water
• Macedonian: пловење (plovenje) — motion across water
• Norwegian Bokmål: seilas — motion across water
• Norwegian Bokmål: seiltur — motion across water
• Norwegian Bokmål: seiling — motion across water
• Occitan: navegacion a vela — motion across water
• Polish: żeglowanie — motion across water
• Polish: żeglarstwo — motion across water
• Portuguese: navegação — motion across water
• Portuguese: vela — motion across water
• Russian: па́русный спорт (párusnyj sport) — motion across water
• Serbo-Croatian: једрење — motion across water
• Serbo-Croatian: jedrenje — motion across water
• Spanish: navegación — motion across water
• Spanish: navegación a vela — motion across water
• Spanish: velerismo — motion across water
• Swedish: segling — motion across water
• Bulgarian: ветроходство (vetrohodstvo) — skill to operate a vessel
• Finnish: navigointi — skill to operate a vessel
• Greek: ιστιοπλοΐα (istioploḯa) — skill to operate a vessel
• Spanish: náutica — skill to operate a vessel
• Bulgarian: отплаване (otplavane) — time of departure
• Finnish: lähtöaika — time of departure
• Finnish: purjehdus — scheduled voyage
• Norwegian Bokmål: seiling — scheduled voyage