Words similar to afrikaans

Example sentences for: afrikaans

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Ranch words of Mexican origin, besides ranch itself, are: rodeo, latigo `a long strap to fasten the cinch to a Western saddle,' corral (a word I could not find in an English dictionary, except in its Afrikaans form kraal, when I needed to know how to spell it some sixty years ago), bronc(o), palomino, buckeroo (which I have heard used only in fun), and chaps, to list a few that come to mind.
Aardvark was borrowed from Afrikaans aard `earth' plus vark `pig,' the similarity being the snouts.
There is certainly a need for words of Afrikaans origin that recur in English texts (often for local color effect) to be glossed somewhere: a reference work like the DOSAE might be more convenient for readers than an Afrikaans or Xhosa or some other dictionary.
That was where I learned to speak Afrikaans She is heel-temal tweetalig [totally bilingual] and ... studied art in Scotland.
Incidentally, dunk is not proper German, Dutch, or even Afrikaans for `dip,' and to the best of my knowledge would not even be understood as slang in German or Afrikaans.