petit nègre
French
noun
Definitions
- (derogatory) A pidgin language that West African soldiers historically used to communicate with the occupying French army.
- (derogatory) Any other language incompetently spoken.
Etymology
Compound from French petit (little, small) + French nègre (black, nigger, black person).
Origin
French
nègre
Gloss
black, nigger, black person
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
黒
Emoji
🐃 🐈⬛ 🕋 🖤 🦓
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- neger English
- nigger English
- price English
- niger Latin
- nigrum, niger Latin
- Neger German
- neger Dutch, Flemish
- Petitjean French
- nègre French
- négraille French
- négresse French
- négrillon French
- négrophobe French
- négroïde French
- petiot French
- petit French
- petit filet French
- petit juif French
- petitement French
- petitesse French
- petitissime French
- негр Russian
- negro Spanish, Castilian
- pitiyanqui Spanish, Castilian
- neger Norwegian Bokmål
- negro Portuguese
- petiz Portuguese
- neger Swedish
- プチ Japanese
- プチプライス Japanese
- neger Norwegian Nynorsk
- neger Danish
- petit Old French
- petti Faroese
- негър Bulgarian
- nèg Haitian, Haitian Creole
- ti Haitian, Haitian Creole
- tipti Mauritian Creole