canot m (plural canots)
First known attestation 1599, either from cane + -ot or as an alteration of canoe (modern French canoë), or a combination of both. See above.
canot m (plural canots)
From Middle French canot (“little boat", also "dugout”), partly continuing (in diminutive form) Old French cane (“boat, ship”), from Middle Low German kane (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”) (compare German Kahn (“boat”)); and partly from an alteration of Middle French canoe (“dugout made from the trunk of a tree”), from Spanish canoa (“dugout canoe”). More at canard.