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English word nigger comes from Hittite e-grade

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e-grade (Hittite)

*nékʷts (Proto-Indo-European)

nigrum (Latin)

negro (Spanish)

Ghost writer. The black colour. The black ethnicity (Spain) angry. Black (color). Clandestine. Dirty. Sad.

négresse (French)

(Louisiana French) [term of endearment] honey, baby, precious. (Louisiana French) girlfriend. (Louisiana French) wife. (offensive) negress.

nigger (English)

(African American Vernacular English) A friend.. (African American Vernacular English) Informal term of address.. (UK, Cornwall, fishing, archaic) A kind of sea cucumber, Holothuria forskali, the cotton spinner.. (archaic) A black caterpillar, the larva of the turnip sawfly.. (archaic) A strong iron-bound timber with sharp teeth or spikes protruding from its front face, forming part of the [...]

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