Gariepine, adjective
- Origin:
- Khoikhoi, EnglishShow more Khoikhoi Gariep name for the Orange River + English adjective-forming suffix -ine.
obs.
Of or pertaining to the Khoikhoi or San; of these two peoples collectively. See also Khoisanoid (Khoisan).
- Note:
- For a note on the Khoikhoi-San division, see Khoikhoi.
1857 Cape Monthly Mag. II. Sept. 183The Hottentot or Gariepine race was met by Europeans landing on the south-western promontory. These Gariepine people speak a tongue of a different order.
1887 J. Mackenzie Austral Afr. II. 458Comparative philologists..use the term ‘Gariepine’ to mean the yellow people living in South Africa.
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