Kwa-, prefix
- Forms:
- Also with small initial.
- Origin:
- In the Nguni languages, ‘at the place of’.
- Note:
- In the Nguni languages, usually prefixed to the name of a person or a people, the word to which Kwa- is prefixed usually retaining its initial capital, as KwaZulu, formed on the Zulu noun stem -Zulu (see Zulu), and KwaMashu, formed on the name of Marshall Campbell, on whose farm the township of KwaMashu was built.
A prefix used to form place-names; now also prefixed to company names, as KwaTeba [see Teba], and to existing place names, as KwaNatal in historical contexts, the composite name of a proposed re-unified region of the province of Natal and the self-governing state of KwaZulu (see also KwaNatal Indaba at indaba sense 4).
1899 A. Werner Captain of Locusts 169Nono’s husband was working far away — kwa Mabunu, in the Boer country.
1990 Sunday Times 13 May 17The KwaNatal experience contained useful material for South Africa’s current constitution builders.
A prefix used to form place-names; now also prefixed to company names, as KwaTeba [see Teba], and to existing place names, as KwaNatal in historical contexts, the composite name of a proposed re-unified region of the province of Natal and the self-governing state of KwaZulu (see also KwaNatal Indaba at indaba sense 4).
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