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From: "Steve Hayes" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] THE MEANING OF WORDS
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 05:29:57 +0200
In-Reply-To: <003d01c3ff49$1d4d3340$c7d18690@rhonda>


On 1 Mar 2004 at 12:53, Carl & Rhonda Ferntorp wrote:

> So far as I can put it onto paper the name appears to have been of three
> words. When my mother spoke the words they sounded like 'Manzi i Coola'. She
> didn't know the spelling but said the meaning was supposed to be 'Cool
> Waters'.

That would be pidgin Zulu.

The hearest actual Zulu I can think of would be "Amanzi akhula" which would
mean "the water is growing".

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