zanj
See also: Zanj
Haitian Creole edit
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Etymology edit
From French anges (“angels”). In French, the plural form anges is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, anges was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/.
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zanj