mesties

Borrowed from Spanish mestizo in the West Indies (America), and from Portuguese mestiço in the East Indies and Africa.

• IPA^(key): /mɛsˈtis/

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• Hyphenation: mes‧ties
• Rhymes: -is

mesties m or f (plural mestiezen, diminutive mestiesje n)

1. mestizo (person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage)
2. (biology) hybrid, crossbreed

   Synonyms: kruising, hybride

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “mesties”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• Matthias de Vries; Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864), “mesties”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

• mesties on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl