War, law & rule

apartheid

Afrikaans for 'apartness', formed from apart + -heid '-hood'; adopted as the name of South Africa's system of racial segregation after 1948, it entered every language, from Russian to Japanese, as the anti-apartheid movement grew.

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The road to English

From Afrikaans to French

From Afrikaans to Dutch

From Afrikaans to German

From Afrikaans to Russian

From Afrikaans to Japanese

From Afrikaans to Spanish

From English to Modern Hebrew

1929Afrikaans

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