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Khoikhoi S. Afr.|ˈkɔɪkɔɪ|
Also Khoi Khoi, Khoi Khoin, † Quaiquae, etc.
[Hottentot, lit. ‘men of men’.]
The Hottentots' name for themselves; also used by others in the sense ‘Hottentots’; the language which they speak. Also attrib. or as adj.
1791tr. Le Vaillant's Travels into Interior Parts of Africa II. 154 A Hottentot man..Khoé-Khoep. 1801J. Barrow Acct. Trav. S. Afr. I. iii. 151 [The name] by which the whole nation was distinguished, and which at this moment they bear among themselves in every part of the country, is Quaiquae. 1880Encycl. Brit. XII. 309/2 The common denomination adopted by themselves was Khoi-Khoin (men of men). 1881T. Hahn Tsuni‖ Goam i. 1 These Khoikhoi generally go by the name of Hottentots. Ibid. 5 The Khoikhoi language is entirely void of prefixes. 1897A. J. Butler tr. Ratzel's Hist. Mankind II. 247 The Khoi-Khoi (Bushmen and Hottentot) group of languages. 1910G. M. Theal Yellow & Dark-Skinned People of Afr. iv. 79 Those destitute Hottentots..had more Bushman than pure Khoikhoi blood in their veins. 1930I. Schapera Khoisan Peoples of S. Afr. i. 5 The term [sc. Khoisan] is compounded of the names Khoi-Khoin, by which the Hottentots call themselves, and San, applied by the Hottentots to the Bushmen. 1969Oxf. Hist. S. Afr. I. i. 10 Blood group studies suggest, however, that certain Khoikhoi speakers are closely allied in their blood-group patterns to African negroids. Ibid. ii. 43 There were also groups of herders, most of whom spoke Khoikhoi. Ibid. 56 The Khoikhoi may have been shepherds before they were cattle-men. |