I bet it is really hard to learn to Kayak. But I really want to learn!
It does seem very physically involved, I bet it is fun though. It was actually first used by the indigenous Aleut, Inuit, Yupik, and possibly Ainu hunters.
Wow I wonder how far Kayaking dates back?
I think probably at least a thousand years if those groups in the subarctic regions of the world were using them.
That is really interesting! I bet at night they are really quite and it makes for easy hunting on the river.
That's a good point, I didn't consider that. Despite being used by those groups first, the word kayak actually originates from a Greelandic word, "qajaq."
I feel like every word we use now has a meaning that dates back several years,
Well language is one of the defining features of being human, so it makes sense that words would have extensive histories behind them.