Word Origin Summary

Afrikaans is attested in Afrikaans. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. AfrikaansDutchinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Afracáinis

  Irish · derived from

• Afrikaans

  English · borrowed from

• afrikáans

  Spanish · borrowed from

• Kiafrikaans

  Swahili · derived from

• Afrikaans

  Hunsrik · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root