Animals, plants & weather

mamba

The fast, deadly African snake is called by its Zulu name, imamba, which English and Afrikaans passed on to Dutch, German, French, Russian and Japanese.

Weakest linkCertain

The road to English

From Zulu to Afrikaans

From English to Dutch

From English to German

From English to French

From English to Russian

From English to Japanese

1850Zulu

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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