béké

See also: béke

French

Etymology

Possibly from French-based creole languages, in turn from Kalabari ̣bekín ̣bọ (“white person, European”).[1] Compare Berbice Creole Dutch bɛkɛ (“white person”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

béké (feminine békée, masculine plural békés, feminine plural békées)

  1. Describing a person of white, French descent from the French Antilles

References

  1. ^ Silvia Kouwenhove (2012) “The Ịjọ-derived lexicon of Berbice Creole Dutch: an a-typical case of African lexical influence”, in Angela Bartens, Philip Baker, editors, Black through White: African words and calques which survived slavery in Creoles and transplanted European languages‎[1], London: Battlebridge, pages 137, 149
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