gondola

English took this word from Italian gondola, which came from Venetan góndoƚa. Some trace it further back to Byzantine Greek kontoûra, a word for a cutter or a kind of ship.

The facts here don't trace a shift in meaning — just a path of borrowing from Byzantine Greek through Venetan into Italian and then English.

The facts given don't point to any surviving English cognate from this word's root.