HERERO, or OVAHERERO (" merry people ")

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HERERO, or OVAHERERO (" merry people ") , a

Bantu

BANTU

people

PEOPLE

German

GERMAN
GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

-West Africa, living in the region known as Damaraland or Ilereroland. They

call

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

themselves Ovaherero and their language Otshi-herero. Sometimes they are described as

Cattle

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

Damara or " Damara of the Plains " in distinction from the Hill Damara who are of mixed blood and Hottentots in language. The Herero, whose

main

MAIN (from the
Aryan
- ARYAN
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

occupation is that of

cattle

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

-rearing, are a warlike race, possessed of considerable military skill, as was shown in their

campaigns

CAMPAIGNS

of 1go45 against the Germans. (See further

GERMAN

GERMAN
GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

SOUTH

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

-WEST AFRICA.)

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