English
Kafferskraal
Kafferskraal comes from Afrikaans Kafferskraal.
- AfrikaansmodernKafferskraal
- Englishearliest quotation 2002same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- AfrikaansmodernKafferskraal
- Englishearliest quotation 2002same form
Earliest quotation: 2002, Bakone Justice Moloto: “It was put to him that the name Kafferskraal…”
A compound of kaffer ‘black, kaffir’ + kraal ‘corral’
Arabic كَفَرَ ‘to disbelieve’
Arabic كَافِر ‘infidel’
Portuguese cafre ‘Kaffir’
Dutch kaffer ‘a non-believer or an infidel from the Muslim viewpoint’
Afrikaans kaffer ‘black, kaffir’
Old Galician-Portuguese curral
Portuguese curral ‘corral, pen’
Dutch kraal ‘a kraal, corral’
Afrikaans kraal ‘corral’
Every English word from Afrikaans Kafferskraal
Today it means
name A place name for many farms originally worked by black natives.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Afrikaans Kafferskraal / Kafferskraal