Etymograph

English

antiapartheid

From anti- + apartheid.

A compound of anti- + apartheid

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti ‘opposite’

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ ‘over against, opposite’

English anti-

Middle French a part

Dutch apart ‘separate’

Dutch apartheid ‘the state of being separate’

Afrikaans apartheid

English apartheid

Today it means

adj Acting against or opposing apartheid.

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

Etymograph / antiapartheid