Etymology

maskandi

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Zulu umaskandi ← Afrikaans musikant
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The story

  1. Afrikaans · derived frommusikant“musician”
  2. Zulu · borrowed fromumaskandi
  3. English todaymaskandi

From Zulu umaskandi, from Afrikaans musikant (“musician”).

Words from the same roots

Afrikaansmusikant all →

maskanda

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.