veldskoen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch veldschoen (Cape Dutch), from vel (“skin, hide”) + schoen (“shoe”); later reinforced by Afrikaans veldskoen.

Pronunciation

(General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈfeltskʊn/
(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛldskʊn/, /ˈfɛltskʊn/

Noun

veldskoen (plural veldskoens or veldskoene)

(South Africa) Originally, a shoe with untanned leather upper sewn without nails, similar to the Canadian moccasin; now generally a heavy boot for outdoor labour. [from 19th c.]
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 28:
  [A]ll my life I've been surrounded by violence. Not in the way any of my quite long line of pioneer forefathers experienced it, leaving their veldskoen tracks through history […]

See also

References

1978: A Dictionary of South African English. Edited Jean Branford. Oxford.

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