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Catamaran

2 stages from Tamil to English.

Today it means a boat with two parallel hulls
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Stage 1 of 2
kattumaram
Tamil · medieval
"tied logs"
literally "tied wood", describing logs lashed together
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Stage 2 of 2
catamaran
English · 1600s-1700s
"a twin-hulled boat"
adopted through British colonial contact in South India
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