英语词汇apartheid的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

apartheid. Although racial segregation is no longer the law in South Africa, this word for official racial segregation is still applied to any such official policy anywhere and even segrega- tion in general. The word seems to have first been used in En- glish in a 1947 South African newspaper article. Apartheid is from Afrikaans, the language of Dutch settlers in South Africa. It is composed of the Dutch apart, “separate,” and heid, equiva- lent to the English suffix hood, literally meaning “separateness” but actually being far more insidious in both meaning and practice.

词汇	apartheid
词源	apartheid. Although racial segregation is no longer the law in South Africa, this word for official racial segregation is still applied to any such official policy anywhere and even segrega- tion in general. The word seems to have first been used in En- glish in a 1947 South African newspaper article. Apartheid is from Afrikaans, the language of Dutch settlers in South Africa. It is composed of the Dutch apart, “separate,” and heid, equiva- lent to the English suffix hood, literally meaning “separateness” but actually being far more insidious in both meaning and practice.
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