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Definition of Khoikhoin
1. Noun. Any of the Khoisan languages spoken by the pastoral people of Namibia and South Africa.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Khoikhoin
Literary usage of Khoikhoin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Star-names and Their Meanings by Richard Hinckley Allen (1899)
"Even the Khoikhoin, the Hottentots of South Africa, and the Bantus associated
the hare and moon in their worship, and connected them in story, ..."
2. An Introduction to the Study of African Languages by Carl Meinhof (1915)
"... who laid the foundation by his book, Der Sprachschatz der Khoikhoin, printed
at Berlin in 1889 by the help of the German Colonial Society. ..."
3. The Science of Language: Linguistics, Philology, Etymology by Abel Hovelacque (1877)
"... in the plural Khoikhoin, a word which means " man of men," or " friend of
friends."—(Hahn, op. cit., p. 8). The Namaqua phonetics are very varied, ..."
4. Glossary of Geographical and Topographical Terms and of Words of Frequent by Alexander Knox (1904)
"Khoi (Hottentot), men, eg Khoikhoin, ' men of men,' ie the Hottentots. As a suffix
it takes the form of Kwa, eg Nama-Kwa (Namaqua)=the Nama people. ..."
5. Glossary of Geographical and Topographical Terms: And of Words of Frequent by Alexander Knox (1904)
"Khoi (Hottentot), men, eg Khoikhoin, ' men of men,' ie the Hottentots. As a suffix
it takes the form of Kwa, eg Nama-Kwa (Namaqua) = the Nama people. ..."
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