English
hartebeest
Hartebeest comes from Afrikaans hartebeest.
- Afrikaansmodernhartebeest
- Englishearliest quotation 1842same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Afrikaansmodernhartebeest
- Englishearliest quotation 1842same form
Earliest quotation: 1842, O. P. Q., New Zealand and the Cape: “Besides these, there are bles bucks, quaggas, ostriches, steen…”
A compound of hert ‘deer, hart’ + beest ‘beast’
Latin bēstia ‘a beast’
Old French beste ‘beast, animal’
Middle Dutch beste
Middle Dutch beeste
Dutch beest ‘beast’
Every English word from Afrikaans hartebeest
Today it means
noun A species of grassland antelope, Alcelaphus buselaphus, native to parts of Africa.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Afrikaans hartebeest / hartebeest