Where does “Afrikaner” come from?
Afrikaner derives from Afrikaans Afrikaner, formed with the Afrikaans suffix -er from Dutch Africa, which came through Old Dutch -āri and Latin -arius, ultimately from Latin Africus meaning of Africa.
Afrikaner (English): A member of an ethnic group of northwestern...
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- A member of an ethnic group of northwestern...
Ancestry of “Afrikaner”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afrikaans | Afrikaner | Afrikaner; African |
| 2 | Dutch | Afrikaan | African |
| 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 |