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Off topic re: kak. I don't know where exactly it came from, but it's also a word in New Zealand English (and possibly other dialects). If I told someone I kacke
by toomanybeersies 9y ago
Off topic re: kak. I don't know where exactly it came from, but it's also a word in New Zealand English (and possibly other dialects). If I told someone I kacked my pants, they'd understand that I shat myself. It's not super common, but it's understood.
I wonder if maybe it's because there's a lot of South African expats in New Zealand.
- nerdponx 9y agoProbably related to "caca" which usually means something related to fecal matter in Romance languages.
- saimiam 9y agoAnd Tamil which is not a Romance language.
- yannis 9y agoIt has Indo-European roots https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/lex/master/0821 https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/lex/master/0821. Although Tamil is Dravidian, probably a loan word.
- YouKnowBetter 9y agoSince Tamil has borrowed more Dutch words (and uses at least one from Tamil, being katamaran), I expect your kak to come from the dutch kak, as kak always rolls down hill.
- snakeanus 9y agoIn greek as well.
- dom0 9y agoLatin: cacare (to shit) German: Kacke (the ck as usual indicates that this word may only be used with the voice raised beyond 85 dB and with at least 5 % spit by volume mixed into the air-stream).
- misterdata 9y ago'kak' means 'shit' in Dutch as well. South African is quite similar to Dutch for colonial reasons.
- dingaling 9y agoIt had a brief moment in the limelight of UK student lexicon during the 1990s due to the TV sketch series "The Mary Whitehouse Experience". 20 years later when studying South African history I was able to subconsciously translate that one word. Die Mann praat kakk!
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