Etymology

blackspeak

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Today it means: The dialect of English spoken by people of sub-Saharan African ancestry living stateside. Full definition →

English black ← Middle English blak ← Old English blæc
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*blakaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*blak
  3. Old Englishblæc
  4. Middle Englishblak
  5. Englishblack
  6. English todayblackspeak

From black + -speak.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.