Etymograph

English

Kendian

Kendian comes from English Kendi.

  1. English1500–presentKendi
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2021Kendian

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentKendi
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2021Kendian

Earliest quotation: 2021, Ross Douthat, The Excesses of Antiracist Education: “That pretense worked out badly for the right, whose…”

A compound of Kendi + -an

Sanskrit कुण्ड ‘bowl, waterpot’

Malay kendi ‘earthenware jar’

English Kendi

Today it means

adj Relating to American author and historian Ibram X. Kendi, or his political and social ideas.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / English Kendi / Kendian