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Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·dutch ·1940s

Apartheid

from apartheid

Meaning
Apartness — the South African system of racial separation, 1948–1994.
Source word
apartheid
Route into English
Afrikaans (Dutch-derived) → English world political vocabulary in the 1940s.
Arrived
1940s

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