kajuit

From Middle Dutch kayhute, of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly borrowed from Old French. According to Watkins, possibly a mix of cabane + hutte. Cognate with German Kajüte (from Middle Low German kajüte), French cahute.

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kajuit f (plural kajuiten, diminutive kajuitje n)

1. cabin on a ship

• hut

• → French: cajute

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “kajuit”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• “cahoots”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.