Etymology

takkie

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Today it means: An athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker. Full definition →

Afrikaans tekkie
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The story

  1. Afrikaans · derived fromtekkie“athletic shoe”
  2. English todaytakkie

From Afrikaans tekkie (“athletic shoe”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.