Nigga does not derive from the word Negus.
The word “Negus” was the title given to the King of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), from Amharic “negush” meaning “king”, stemming from “nagasha” which means “he forced, ruled”.
“Nagasha” is also not related to the word “Naga”, and “Naga” is not related to the word “Nigga”. “Naga” is of Sanskrit origin meaning “serpent, snake”. “Naga” in Japanese means “long”; I bring that point up just to demonstrate that just because a word means something in one language (Naga meaning “snake” in Sanskrit) doesn’t mean that meaning carries over when a word with a similar sound is spoken in another language (Naga meaning “long” in Japanese. Hebi means “snake” in Japanese).
“Nigga” obviously derives from “N*gg*r” which itself derives from an earlier Scottish and English dialect “Neger” which in turns derives from the French word “Nègre” which derives from the Spanish word “Negro”. Hence where you get the word “Negroes” from. The Spanish word “Negro” which anyone who knows some Spanish knows it means “black”, comes from the Latin word “Nigrum” which in turn means “black, dark”.
People often point to the Niger River or Nigeria as some sort of justification but these are not native names. Dr. Ben-Jochannan has already shown that the names used in Africa today are not native. The Niger River was called that by Europeans, in native African tongues it is called Jeliba (Manding language), Orimiri (Igbo language), Egerew n-Igerewen (Tuareg language), Isa Ber (Songhay langauage), Kwara (Hausa language), and Oya (Yoruba language). Niger is not the name used in any of the native African languages, so the argument that we used the word Niger to mean “king, god, etc” is dead.
This is why studying history and etymology is important when looking at the origin of words. Don’t let these pseudo-“conscious” folks fool you. We’re putting an end to all the pseudoscience this summer.
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I have been wondering for a while what the native Africans call their rivers and countries, outside of how the European-colonized West does.
This also reminds me of how far my eyes rolled in my head when White People were collectively on some nonsense when the word “bae” started popping up. Because, of course, every black person is randomly dropping in some other European language into our conversation and not at all creating our own words for our own use (that everyone else is going to turn around and use anyway).
The fact is every country on the continent of Africa and the Middle East has borders dictated by colonizers. You can start researching here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa and here: https://uk-essays.net/european-colonialism-middle-east-history & here: https://coldwarstudies.com/2013/01/11/history-of-colonization-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-mena-precursor-to-cold-war-conflict/
