kakkerlak
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kakkerlak (plural kakkerlakke, diminutive kakkerlakkie)
- cockroach (insect)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From kacker, a contemptuous term derived from kakken (“to shit, defecate”), and lacker (“talker, freeloader”), from likken (“to lick”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kakkerlak m (plural kakkerlakken, diminutive kakkerlakje n)
- cockroach (certain non-termite insect of the order Blattodea)
- (derogatory) contemptible person
- (soccer, colloquial, often derogatory) supporter of Feyenoord
Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: kakkerlak
- Berbice Creole Dutch: kakalaka
- Negerhollands: kakerlaker, kakelak
- → Virgin Islands Creole: kakalaka, kakaroachee (dated)
- Skepi Creole Dutch: kakalaka
- → Lokono: kakalaka
- → Aukan: kakaaka
- → Caribbean Hindustani: calcattá
- → Danish: kakerlak
- → Indonesian: kakerlak
- → Papiamentu: kakalaka
- → Sranan Tongo: kakalaka
- → Saramaccan: ahalakpákpa
References edit
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “kakkerlak”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute