Kilo Lingo

sail

/seɪl/

Line drawing of sail
Coloured illustration of sail
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Translation

To travel across water in a boat or ship.

Word origin

From Old English seglian, to travel by ship using cloth to catch the wind.

Origin
Old English
Root
seglian

Grammar

Verb typeregular (sail, sails, sailed)

Examples

across tomorrow.

Here "sail" means to travel on water in a boat.

.

"Sailed" is the past form of "sail".

fast.

"Sails" is the form used with he, she, or it.

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This word is part of lesson 14.