Etymograph

English

kwedini

Kwedini comes from Xhosa kwedini, and goes back to nkwenkwe ‘boy’.

  1. Xhosamodernnkwenkwe‘boy’
  2. Xhosa, derivedmodernkwedini
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1979same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Xhosamodernnkwenkwe‘boy’
  2. Xhosa, derivedmodernkwedini
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1979same form

Earliest quotation: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season: “A year later Jonathan – or Sipho, which Gordon…”

Every English word from Xhosa nkwenkwe

Today it means

noun A young boy, especially a Xhosa.

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Etymograph / Xhosa nkwenkwe / kwedini

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