Etymology

guarriboom

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Today it means: A shrub, Euclea divinorum; its fruit can be fermented to produce vinegar. Full definition →

Khwe gwarri ← Afrikaans boom ← Dutch boom
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The story

  1. Dutch · derived fromboom“tree”
  2. Afrikaans · derived fromboom
  3. Khwe · derived fromgwarri
  4. English todayguarriboom

From Khwe gwarri (whence also Zulu umgwali) + Afrikaans boom, from Dutch boom (“tree”).

Words from the same roots

Khwegwarri all →

guarri

Afrikaansboom all →

waterboom

Dutchboom all →

boom

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.