Words of Afrikaans originhave entered other languages. British Englishhas absorbed Afrikaans words primarily viaBritishsoldiers who served in theBoer Wars. Many more words have entered common usage inSouth African Englishdue to the parallel nature of the English andAfrikanerculturesinSouth Africa. harte...
Advertisements: Use the search bar to look for terms in all glossaries, dictionaries, articles and other resources simultaneously This is a list ofEnglish languagewords that come from any of theSub-SaharanAfrican languages. It excludesplacenamesexcept where they have become common words....
Even the recent dictionaries revealed little about African language influences for the test words, with only three words uniformly attributed to African languages. The exclusion of even speculative etymological notes in other definitions is conspicuous, as is the attribution of "origin unknown" for ...
Notes: We are always talking about the origin of words. Today's contributor thought we should know the origin of origin. The adjective is original. The verb is originate "to create" and its adjective is originative "able to originate". A person who originates is an originator because of ...
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African languages have contributed and continue to contribute a great many vocabulary items to English, both directly and via the intermediary of other non-African languages. The OED Additions Series contains 63 words of African origin, ... E. Weiner - 《Lexikos》 被引量: 2发表: 2012年 Lexica...
Mixed with over a dozen African languages for two centuries, spiced by imports from European colonies, South African English has its own rich, varied and weird flavour.
We consider the Dirichiet problem for the Laplace operator in a plane polygonal domain (simply connected) with a reentrant corner at the origin. In addition to the potential function u, the vectorfield p →= →u is introduced as a supple... HE Sossa,L Paquet - 《Advances in Mathematical...
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25 African origins banana, bongo, banjo, cola, jazz, chimpanzee, goober, gumbo, impala, jumbo, mamba, zebra, zombie As you’d imagine, learning about English’s loanwords from other languages is linked with the history of the English language itself. Because of its status as a global lingu...