Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• Afrikaans

  MSA · derived from

• Afrikaans

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• Afracáinis

  Irish · derived from

• Afrikaans

  English · borrowed from

• afrikáans

  Spanish · borrowed from

• Kiafrikaans

  Swahili · derived from

• Afrikaans

  German · borrowed 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