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PIE word
*néh₂us

Borrowed from French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff; gondola (of a hot-air balloon, etc.); structure on an aircraft to house an engine”), Middle French nacelle (“rowing boat, skiff”), from Old French nacele, from Late Latin naucella, nāvicella (“small boat or ship”), from Latin nāvis (“a ship”) (from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us (“a boat”)) + -ella (diminutive suffix).[1]

nacelle (plural nacelles)

  1. (aviation)
    2. The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola.
    4. A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew.
    5. (archaic) The cockpit of an aircraft.
  2. (by extension)
    1. A hollow boat-shaped structure.
    2. An enclosure housing machinery or a motor.
    4. (electrical engineering) The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine.
    5. (nautical) The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat.
    7. (road transport) A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle.

compartment that holds passengers on an aerostat — see gondola

cockpit of an aircraft — see cockpit

hollow boat-shaped structure

  • Finnish: laiva (fi)
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enclosure housing machinery or a motor

  • Finnish: kotelo (fi)
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part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine

submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat

  • Finnish: naselli (fi)
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streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle

  • Finnish: kojelaudan kotelo
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  1. ^ “nacelle, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2023; “nacelle, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Inherited from Old French nacele (“small boat”), from Late Latin navicella, diminutive of Latin navis (“boat”). Doublet of navicelle.

nacelle f (plural nacelles)

  1. (literary) skiff
  2. gondola (of hot-air balloon etc.)
  3. pod (of spacecraft)
  4. cradle