English
kaalgat
Kaalgat comes from Afrikaans kaalgat ‘a naked person’, and goes back to Dutch kaalgat.
- Dutchc. 1500–presentkaalgat‘an extremely poor person, a poor sod’
- Afrikaansmodernsame form‘a naked person’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presentkaalgat‘an extremely poor person, a poor sod’
- Afrikaansmodernsame form‘a naked person’
- Englishtodaysame form
Every English word from Dutch kaalgat
Today it means
adj stark naked.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch kaalgat / kaalgat