Where does “Afrikanerdom” come from?
Afrikanerdom (English) comes from English Afrikaner, from Afrikaans Afrikaner, from Dutch Afrikaan, from Latin africanus, from Latin Āfrica, from Latin āfricus, from Latin Āfri, from Albanian afër — the god Apis.
Afrikanerdom (English): The world or sphere of Afrikaners
Definitions
- The world or sphere of Afrikaners
Ancestry of “Afrikanerdom”, step by step
Afrikanerdom traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Afrikaner
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Afrikaner | A member of an ethnic group of northwestern... |
| 2 | Afrikaans | Afrikaner | Afrikaner; African |
| 3 | Dutch | Afrikaan | African |
| 4 | Latin | africanus | African |
| 5 | Latin | Āfrica | the territory of Carthage, the African coast west of Cyrenaica |
| 6 | Latin | āfricus | African |
| 7 | Latin | Āfri | — |
| 8 | Albanian | afër | at, beside, by, near, nearby, near to, next to |
| 9 | Proto-Albanian | apsera | at, beside, by, near, nearby, near to, next to |
| 10 | Proto-Albanian | aps | — |
| 11 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 13 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 14 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |
via English DOM
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | DOM | Initialism of date of marriage; Initialism of... |
| 2 | English | dominance | The state of being dominant; of prime importance;... |
| 3 | English | -ance | Added to an adjective or verb to form a noun... |
| 4 | Middle English | -aunce | Forms nouns indicating states or processes, usually from verbs or other nouns; -ance |
| 5 | Old French | -ance | ance (suffix used to form nouns) |
| 6 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |