English
kaama
Kaama comes from Tswana kgama ‘hartebeest’.
- Tswanamodernkgama‘hartebeest’
- Englishearliest quotation 1824kaama
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Tswanamodernkgama‘hartebeest’
- Englishearliest quotation 1824kaama
Earliest quotation: 1824, William John Burchell, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa: “For, in the morning one of the Hottentots found…”
Every English word from Tswana kgama
Today it means
noun The hartebeest.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Tswana kgama / kaama