Etymology

Ciskei

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Today it means: A former bantustan in the southeast of South Africa, formed in 1961, declared independent in 1981, and reintegrated in 1993. Full definition →

Afrikaans Ciskei
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The story

  1. Afrikaans · borrowed fromCiskei
  2. English todayCiskei

From Afrikaans Ciskei, analyzable in English as cis- + Kei (in reference to the Great Kei River; hence literally “on this side of the Kei River”, as opposed to Transkei.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.