peer

From Dutch peer, from Middle Dutch pēre, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum.


appel

head

appel (plural appels, diminutive appeltjie)

→ Xhosa: i-apile

From Dutch appel, from Middle Dutch appel, from Old Dutch *appel, from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl.


vy

Backformation from vye, plural of vyg, from Dutch vijg.


beet

From Dutch beet, variant of biet, from Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.


aartappel

aartappel (plural aartappels, diminutive aartappeltjie)

aartappels (plural)
aartappeltjie (diminutive)

From Dutch aardappel, from Middle Dutch *āerdappel (“cucumber, pumpkin”).


nartjie

head

nartjie (plural nartjies, diminutive nartjietjie)

nartjies (plural)
nartjietjie (diminutive)

Perhaps borrowed from Tamil நாரத்தை (nārattai, “citron”).


komkommer

komkommer (plural komkommers, diminutive komkommertjie)

komkommers (plural)
komkommertjie (diminutive)

From Dutch komkommer, from Middle Dutch cucumer, from Old French concombre, from Latin cucumis.


naartjie

naartjie (plural naartjies, diminutive naartjietjie)

naartjies (plural)
naartjietjie (diminutive)

(uncommon) Alternative spelling of nartjie


mielie

mielie (plural mielies, diminutive mielietjie)

mielies (plural)
mielietjie (diminutive)

→ English: mielie, mealie

From Portuguese milho, from Latin milium.


wortel

From Dutch wortel, from Middle Dutch wortele, from Old Dutch *wurtala, from Proto-Germanic *wurt- (“root”) + *waluz (“stick”).


granaat

→ Xhosa: irharnate

From Dutch granaat, Middle Dutch garnate, grenate, from Old French grenat, from Latin pomus granatus (“seeded apple”).


vrug

vrug (plural vrugte, diminutive vruggie)

From Dutch vrucht, from Middle Dutch vrucht, from Old Dutch fruht, from Latin frūctus.


piesang

piesang (plural piesangs, diminutive piesankie)

piesangs (plural)
piesankie (diminutive)


kersie

kersie (plural kersies, diminutive kersietjie)

kersies (plural)
kersietjie (diminutive)

Diminutive of Dutch kers (“cherry”). The basic form has been reserved to the etymologically distinct kers (“candle”) in Afrikaans (compare etymology 2).


kokosneut

From Dutch kokosnoot. Eq. to kokos + neut.


lemoen

Inherited from Dutch limoen (“lime”), from Middle Dutch limoen, from Middle French limon, from Italian limone, from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Ottoman Turkish لیمون, from Persian لیمو.


mandaryn

mandaryn (plural mandaryne, diminutive mandaryntjie)

mandaryne (plural)
mandaryntjie (diminutive)


appelkoos

From Dutch appelkoos, from abrikoos, from Middle French abricot, from Arabic اَلْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Latin praecoqua.

der

اَلْبَرْقُوق


aarbei

From Dutch aardbei, from Middle Dutch erdbēre, erdbēsie, from Old Dutch *erdberi, from Proto-West Germanic *erþubaʀi from Proto-Germanic *erþōbazją (literally “earth-berry”).


perske

→ Phuthi: iperekisi

From Dutch perzik, from Middle Dutch perseke, ultimately from Late Latin persicum, persica.


tamatie

→ Sotho: tamati

→ Zulu: utamatisi

From Dutch tomaat with assimilation of the first vowel, from English tomato, though the Dutch underwent subsequent influence by French tomate, both from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”).


kafferkoring

→ Dutch: kafferkoren

kaffer (“African”) (now offensive) + koring (“grain”).

compound

Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum bicolor#Translingual

(now offensive) sorghum, Sorghum bicolor


spinasie

head

spinasie (plural spinasies, diminutive spinasietjie)

spinasies (plural)
spinasietjie (diminutive)

From Dutch spinazie, from Middle Dutch spinagie, from Old French espinache, from Latin spinachium, Old Spanish espinaca, from Arabic إسفاناخ, from Persian اسفناج.

der

Arabic إسفاناخ


maroela

head

maroela (plural maroelas, diminutive maroelatjie)

maroelas (plural)
maroelatjie (diminutive)

From Tswana morula (“marula tree”), or from a closely related language.

marula; a medium-sized dioecious tree, Sclerocarya birrea


maroelavrug

maroelavrug (plural maroelavrugte, diminutive maroelavruggie)

maroelavrugte (plural)
maroelavruggie (diminutive)


springmielie

springmielie (plural springmielies, diminutive springmielietjie)

springmielies (plural)
springmielietjie (diminutive)

From spring (“jump”) + mielie (“corn, maize”).


dubbeldoor

head

dubbeldoor (plural dubbeldore, diminutive dubbeldoortjie)

dubbeldore (plural)
dubbeldoortjie (diminutive)

Compound of dubbel + door, the latter being a variant of dooier (“yolk”).


dubbeldooier

dubbeldooier (plural dubbeldooiers, diminutive dubbeldooiertjie)

dubbeldooiers (plural)
dubbeldooiertjie (diminutive)

Compound of dubbel (“double”) + dooier (“yolk”).

compound+

a double-yolked egg, an egg with two yolks