English
Kapenaar
Kapenaar comes from Afrikaans Kapenaar ‘Capetonian, a person from Cape Town’, and goes back to kaap.
- Afrikaansmodernkaap‘cape, headland’
- Afrikaans, derivedmodernKapenaar‘Capetonian, a person from Cape Town’
- Englishearliest quotation 1926same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Afrikaansmodernkaap‘cape, headland’
- Afrikaans, derivedmodernKapenaar‘Capetonian, a person from Cape Town’
- Englishearliest quotation 1926same form
Earliest quotation: 1926, Percy Ward Laidler, Cape Town: Maskew Miller: “Fowls serenaded, and dogs passed the time lazily, even…”
Every English word from Afrikaans kaap
Today it means
noun A native or inhabitant of the city of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Afrikaans kaap / Kapenaar