It seems no one knows. Try a search on: hottentot word origin. Seems to me they are guessing: Dutch, perhaps from a Nama dancing song, transferred by Dutch sailors to the people themselves, or from German hotteren-totteren ‘stutter’ (with reference to their language, in which clicking sounds are used). Keith ------ Original Message ------ Received: 07:36 PM EDT, 06/23/2015 From: Pat Frykberg via <south-africa@rootsweb.com> To: south-africa@rootsweb.com, south-africa-cape-town@rootsweb.com Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] pronunciation please? My books tell me that the word Hottentot was the early Dutch way of saying something they couldn't pronounce. Was it Khoikhoi?? Or something different and could you give me a kind of phonetically idea of what it was? I suspect clicks? I can do those, but how to write them? Thanks all my favourite people. Pat Frykberg ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message