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kaffer: Arabic → Portuguese → Dutch → Afrikaans · Lexodus

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kaffer

From Dutch kaffer, from Portuguese cafre, from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “infidel”).

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This journey was extracted automatically from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and hasn't been checked by a person yet. Dates marked “c.” are estimated from each language's period, and every hop is graded at best “probable”.

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Wiktionary: kaffer (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wiktextract / kaikki.org

c. 750 CEArabic

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c. 750 CE
c. 1400
c. 1420
c. 1850

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