Etymology

Afrikaans

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Today it means: A person from South Africa or Namibia who speaks Afrikaans. (More properly called "Afrikaans people" or Afrikaners.) Full definition →

Afrikaans Afrikaans ← Dutch Afrikaansch
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The story

  1. Dutch · derived fromAfrikaansch“African”
  2. Afrikaans · borrowed fromAfrikaans“African”
  3. English todayAfrikaans

Borrowed from Afrikaans Afrikaans (“African”) itself from earlier Dutch Afrikaansch (“African”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.