kakkerlak
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch kakkerlak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.kər.lak/
Audio (file)
Noun
kakkerlak (plural kakkerlakke, diminutive kakkerlakkie)
- cockroach (insect)
Dutch
Etymology
From kacker, a contemptuous term derived from kakken (“to shit, defecate”), and lacker (“talker, freeloader”), from likken (“to lick”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑ.kərˌlɑk/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: kak‧ker‧lak
Noun
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
- Afrikaans: kakkerlak
- Berbice Creole Dutch: kakalaka
- Negerhollands: kakerlaker, kakelak
- → Virgin Islands Creole: kakalaka, kakaroachee (dated)
- Skepi Creole Dutch: kakalaka
- → Arawak: kakalaka
- → Aukan: kakaaka
- → Caribbean Hindustani: calcattá
- → Danish: kakerlak
- → Indonesian: kakerlak
- → Papiamentu: kakalaka
- → Sranan Tongo: kakalaka
- → Saramaccan: ahalakpákpa
References
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “kakkerlak”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute