Going on instinct, I looked it up in OED and it says 'Bantu is a strongly offensive word in South African English, especially when used of individual people' Joziboy 1 March 2006, 18:58 UTC The dictionary spells it lighty (also lightie, laaitie) originally from 'light of heart'īy the way, I'm not sure about your usage of Bantu to mean 'black person' (ie in the Jewish slang).

And laaitie? It's just from 'light', not Afrikaans. Okay, well I guess it could be from both then. Kuratowski's Ghost 11:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC) Reply Hmm nope I don't think so, this is definitely Afrikaans, I've even heard the equivalent in Dutch and there is a similar word in German dialects.

To formulate a question in Zulu, you either raise the tone of your voice at the end or add 'na', to make sure the listener knows it's a question -> 'You liked the movie, nê?' This word comes from Zulu, not Afrikaans. The Etimologiewoordeboek van afrikaans (van Wyk, 2003) says nè comes probably from Dutch : nie(t) waar, cites Boniface in 1832 recording 'Hy zeg mus daar woord zoopies verkog, neh'. 'dagga' - marijuana is also from Khoikhoi, which is not part of the Nguni/Bantu language group.Ĭould also be derived from Portuguese influence who use a similar word, ne, at the end of their sentences to affirm correctness, much like 'right?' - Preceding unsigned comment added by Isynera ( talk 'gogga - bug (from Khoikhoi xo-xon)', so-called Khoikhoi is not a Bantu language, but is part of a separate linguistic language group. Kuratowski's Ghost 10:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC) Reply gogga not a Bantuism It might have started out as Dutch schoelje and was then reinterpreted by Greek immigrants with the pronunciation being affected. The pronunciation is closer to Greek skolios than to Dutch schoelje which would correspond to an Afrikaans form of 'skoelie' which not used.

Interesting, Greeks in CT understand the term to be Greek. See Afrikaans 'skollie' meaning 'smeerlap, straatboef' found in South Dutch as 'schoelje' 'arme drommel' (which is still used today in Dutch, found it in my Kramer meaning 'fripouille' in French, so 'scoundrel') maybe from French 'escouillon' (see English scullion - cook's boy - also from French ).

According to the Etimologiewoordeboek van afrikaans, already mentioned, skollie is not Greek but Dutch.

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