Where does “Africanist” come from?
Africanist derives from English African plus the suffix -ista from Latin, which comes from Ancient Greek -ιστής, itself from the verb -ίζω meaning to practice or engage in.
Africanist (English): A specialist in African studies; An African...
Definitions
- A specialist in African studies; An African...
Ancestry of “Africanist”, step by step
Africanist traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English African
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | African | Of or pertaining to Africa; Black; synonym of... |
| 2 | Old French | Affrican | African person |
| 3 | Latin | africanus | African |
| 4 | Latin | Āfrica | the territory of Carthage, the African coast west of Cyrenaica |
| 5 | Latin | āfricus | African |
| 6 | Latin | Āfri | — |
| 7 | Albanian | afër | at, beside, by, near, nearby, near to, next to |
| 8 | Proto-Albanian | apsera | at, beside, by, near, nearby, near to, next to |
| 9 | Proto-Albanian | aps | — |
| 10 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 12 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 13 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |
via French africaniste
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | africaniste | Africanist |