Etymology

Botswanan

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Today it means: A person from Botswana or of Botswanan descent. Full definition →

English Botswana ← Tswana Botswana ← Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀-
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The story

  1. Proto-Bantu*bʊ̀-
  2. Tswanabo-
  3. TswanaTswana
  4. TswanaBotswana
  5. EnglishBotswana
  6. English todayBotswanan

From Botswana + -an.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.