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Apartheid

3 stages from Afrikaans/Dutch to English.

Today it means a system of institutionalized racial segregation, historically that of South Africa
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Stage 1 of 3
apart
Afrikaans/Dutch · medieval
"separate"
meaning "separate"
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Stage 2 of 3
apartheid
Afrikaans · 1900s
"state-enforced racial segregation"
literally "separateness", the name of South Africa's system of racial segregation
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Stage 3 of 3
apartheid
English · 1900s
"a system of institutionalized racial segregation"
adopted directly from Afrikaans
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