Pondoadj.n.
/ˈpɒndəʊ/, U.S. /ˈpɑndoʊ/ A. adj.
Of or relating to a Nguni people of the Eastern Cape province in South Africa, or to the Xhosa dialect spoken by them.
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Xhosa1812
Morolong1822
amaXhosa1824
Zulu1824
Sotho1827
amaZulu1828
Amapondo1830
African1832
Matabele1835
knob-nosed1838
Manganja1859
Pondo1872
Bapedi1878
Ovambo1897
Tsonga1907
Venda1913
Pedi1922
Nguni1929
Lobedu1937
Mosotho1955
1872 Wesleyan Missionary Rep. 79 Should peace continue a few years between the Pondo and Tembu tribes.
1897 W. C. Scully in E. R. Seary S. Afr. Short Stories (1947) 33 He took his departure for the ‘great place’ of the paramount Pondo chief, for the purpose of attending an umkandhlu, or ‘meeting for talk’, of which general notice had been given.
1919 H. H. Johnston Compar. Study Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. I. iii. 298 The..dialects include Feñgu..and Pondω words.
1937 C. Birkby Zulu Journey 280 A Pondo umfaan, a youngster who scarcely came up to my elbow.
1973 Times 19 Feb. 12/1 The hillsides are dotted with clusters of neat..round huts.., the homes of the local Africans who are a mixture of Zulu and Pondo tribes.
2004 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 7 Mar. 19 At best he treated the Pondo people with a condescending regality; at worst, contempt.
B. n.
Any member of this Nguni people. Cf. Amapondo n. and adj.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > African languages > Niger-Kordofanian > [noun] > Niger-Congo > Niger-Congo proper languages > Kwa family > Bantu languages > Xhosa
Xhosa1872
Pondo1873
the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > Bantu peoples
Xhosa1801
amaXhosa1809
Matabele1823
Amapondo1824
amaZulu1829
Bapedi1835
Basotho1835
knobnose1848
Ovambo1853
Sotho1883
Tonga1891
Ronga1899
Venda1901
Pedi1912
Mopedi1928
Ndebele1930
Lobedu1933
Tsonga1937
Pondo1950
Nguni1957
1873 Times 15 Dec. 7/1 That national law which unites the Caffres under Kreli, the Tambookies under Gangelizwe, the Pondos under the sons of Faku.
1875 ‘P’ in A. M. L. Robinson Sel. Articles Cape Monthly Mag. (1978) 193 The country we were in belonged to the ‘Amapondomisi’, at one time a powerful off-shoot of the ‘Pondos’; but now it is divided and broken up by party strifes.
1895 W. C. Scully Kafir Stories 189 The Kwesa clan of Pondos dwelt..within thirty miles of the Magistracy.
1933 Jrnl. Internat. Afr. Inst. 6 261 With the Pondo carrying burdens is not in itself degrading, but it would be undignified for a man to do it.
1950 Cape Argus 18 Mar. (Mag.) 7/7 The area from Umtata down to the sea, and northwards to the borders of Natal, belongs to the Pondos.
1979 A. McCoy Insurrectionist vi. 56 The grinning one is a Pondo. There is bad blood already between the Swazi and the Pondo.
1997 B. McCrea et al. S. Afr.: Rough Guide 325 The Thembu to the south [of the Umtata river] and the Pondo to the north.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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