English
Mandela
Mandela comes from Xhosa Mandela.
- XhosamodernMandela
- Englishearliest quotation 2008same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- XhosamodernMandela
- Englishearliest quotation 2008same form
Earliest quotation: 2008, Libby Brooks, Let heroes be unsung: “Our common room, thanks to a morally rectitudinous constitutional…”
Every English word from Xhosa Mandela
Today it means
name A surname from Xhosa, notably borne by Nelson Mandela.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Xhosa Mandela / Mandela