Etymology

Griqua

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Today it means: Any of a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial black people, originally populating the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, living as seminomadic commandos of mounted gunmen. Full definition →

Afrikaans Griekwa
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The story

  1. Afrikaans · borrowed fromGriekwa
  2. English todayGriqua

From Afrikaans Griekwa.

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