‖stamvader, noun
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, stam clan, tribe (literally ‘stem’) + vader father.
The founder or progenitor of a family; the first member of a particular family to have arrived in South Africa.
1957 L.G. Green Beyond City Lights 43Charles Marais, first owner of the farm and stamvader of the large Marais family, was stoned to death by the Hottentots.
1990 W. Steenkamp in Frontline Dec. 19I do not yield one inch of my African-ness to, say, a Xhosa, whose people marched southwards some while before my senior white stamvader presented his copper wire to buy cattle from my Khoi ancestors.
The founder or progenitor of a family; the first member of a particular family to have arrived in South Africa.
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