Where does “Nabateër” come from?

Nabateër (Afrikaans) comes from Afrikaans er — The name of the Latin-script letter R.

Nabateër (Afrikaans): Nabataean any of a group of people who lived in ancient Nabatea, now Jordan

Definitions

  1. Nabataean any of a group of people who lived in ancient Nabatea, now Jordan

Ancestry of “Nabateër”, step by step

Nabateër traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Afrikaans er

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1AfrikaanserThe name of the Latin-script letter R

via Afrikaans Nabatea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1AfrikaansNabatea—
Every word from Afrikaans er →