Etymology

kwaai

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Today it means: bad-tempered, aggressive, fierce Full definition →

Afrikaans kwaai ← Dutch kwaad
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The story

  1. Dutch · derived fromkwaad
  2. Afrikaans · borrowed fromkwaai
  3. English todaykwaai

Borrowed from Afrikaans kwaai, attributive form of kwaad, from Dutch kwaad.

Words from the same roots

Afrikaanskwaai all →

kwaito

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.