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单词 ngwaketse
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Ngwaketsen.adj.

Brit. /(ə)ŋɡwəˈkɛtseɪ/, /(ə)ŋɡwəˈkɛtsi/, U.S. /(ə)ŋɡwəˈkɛtseɪ/, /(ə)ŋɡwəˈkɛtsi/, South African English /(ə)ŋɡwəˈketse/, /(ə)ŋɡwəˈketsi/
Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Forms: 1800s Nuanketsen, 1800s– Ngwaketse.
Origin: A borrowing from Tswana. Etymon: Tswana -Ngwaketse.
Etymology: < Tswana -Ngwaketse, self-designation (plural BaNgwaketse).Compare the following earlier passage in English, reflecting the Tswana plural form:1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. 51 The Bakwains, the Bangwaketze, and the Bamangwato all fled thither, and the Matabele marauders, who came from the well-watered east, perished by hundreds in their attempts to follow them.
A member of a southern African people inhabiting Botswana. Also as adj.
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Zimba1625
Tambouki1786
Hottentot1795
Morolong1815
Oorlam1815
Barolong1823
Tembu1827
Fingo1829
Ngwaketsea1832
Ovaherero1851
Lunda1857
Herero1862
Swazi1878
Magwamba1884
Khoisan1929
Rolong1937
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > countries or regions
Angolan1600
Angola1653
Malay1765
South African1806
Ngwaketsea1832
bushboya1834
Kapenaar1834
Transkeian1847
bosch-man1849
Natalian1850
burgher1879
Transvaaler1887
veldman1895
Rhodesian1897
Vaalpens1899
backvelder1911
plattelander1934
southwester1960
Zimbabwean1961
Zambian1963
Botswanian1966
Botswanan1967
Namibian1968
Ciskeian1973
Sowetan1974
1822 Missionary Notices 29 Sept. 214 One of these visitors having frequently travelled amongst the Manketsens, Boschianas, and Marootzes, to the north and north-east of Griqua Town, gave us much more information respecting that country.]
a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIX. 664/2 The Wánketsens, or Nuánketsens, whose Capital is Melíta.
1871 J. Mackenzie Ten Years (1971) 102 The Matabele were evidently meditating a raid of a similar nature upon the Bangwaketse... Mzilikazi's army swooped down upon the evacuated city like so many vultures thirsting for Ngwaketse blood.
1946 Man 46 20/2 He [sc. the Chief] can abolish religious ceremonies, as circumcision was abolished among the Ngwaketse.
1973 Curernt Anthropol. 14 487 Arc and point settlement units seem characteristic of modern Ngwato, Ngwaketse, and Kwena communities.
1986 P. Maylam Hist. of Afr. People 45 In the eighteenth century two new important Tswana chiefdoms were founded after breaking away from the Kwena. First the Ngwaketse broke away.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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