Where did the word ****** originate from.?

Question

Is it Niger in Africa or Nigeria?

Answer 1

from the land of....thats ****** it  basicaly...

Answer 2

Earlier variants (such as neger or negar) derive from the Spanish/Portuguese word *****, meaning "black", and probably also the French nègre, which has also been used pejoratively (but also positively as in Négritude), derived from ***** (the ordinary French word for "black" being noir). Both ***** and noir (and therefore also nègre and ******) ultimately come from nigrum, the accusative form of the Latin adjective word niger (pronounced [ˈniger], like "knee-ger" with the final r being trilled), meaning "black".

In Colonial America, negars was used in 1619 by John Rolfe, describing slaves shipped to Virginia colony.[5] Neger (sometimes spelled "neggar") also prevailed in northern New York under the Dutch and also in Philadelphia, in its Moravian and Pennsylvania Dutch communities. For example, the African Burial Ground in New York City was originally known as "Begraafplaats van de Neger" (Dutch phrase meaning "Cemetery of the *****" in English).

In the United States, the word ****** was not always considered derogatory, but was instead used by many as merely denotative of black skin, as it was in other parts of the English-speaking world. In nineteenth-century literature, there are many uses of the word ****** with no intended negative connotation. Charles Dickens, and Joseph Conrad (who published The ****** of the 'Narcissus' in 1897) used the word without racist intent. Mark Twain often put the word into the mouths of his characters, white and black, but did not use the word when writing as himself in his autobiographical Life on the Mississippi.

In the United Kingdom and other parts of the English-speaking world, the word was often used to refer to people of Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Kashmiri, Indian or Sri Lankan descent, or merely to darker-skinned foreigners in general; in his 1926 Modern English Usage, H. W. Fowler observed that when the word was applied to "others than full or partial negroes," it was "felt as an insult by the person described, & betrays in the speaker, if not deliberate insolence, at least a very arrogant inhumanity." The note was excised from later editions of the book.

In the 1800s, as ****** began to acquire the pejorative connotation it holds today, the term "Colored" gained popularity as a kinder alternative to ***** and associated terms. For example, abolitionists in Boston, Massachusetts posted warnings to "Colored People of Boston and vicinity." The name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reflects the preference for this term at the time of the NAACP's founding in 1909.

Southern dialect in many parts of the southern United States changes the pronunciation of "*****" to "nigra" (used most famously by Lyndon B. Johnson, a proponent of civil rights). In North American English, the transition from ***** > ****** represented a formerly widespread sound shift. In the early editions of his dictionary, Noah Webster suggested the new spellings of zeber for "zebra", as well as neger for "*****".[6]

Black became the preferred term in English in the late 1960s, and this continues to the present day. In the United States this has been displaced to some extent by African American, at least in politically correct usage; this resembles the term Afro-American that was in vogue in the early 1970s. Nevertheless, black continues in widespread use as a racial designation in the United States and is rarely regarded as offensive.

Today the word is often spelled ***** or ******, in imitation of the manner in which some pronounce it. (Less-common variants are nigguh or even nikuh.) Other variations, designed to avoid the term itself, include nookah, nukka, ****** and the much older "jigger."

Answer 3

From Nigerian......the niger delta....where the Ghanians use to bring them to.....to sell ...to the slaving ships.....the captains use ask where they were from .....to be told Niger even when they were from other places in africa......the hence the term ***** came into being

Answer 4

It seems that the question is asking where the word ****** comes from, according to the amount of stars  in the obliterated word, in which case this is a totally racial question and should not be here.

Answer 5

It's from the latin for black - 'niger'.

Answer 6

From the Spanish word 'nigre', it just means 'black'.

Then it was changed to n3groid for racial clasifaication, and '******' is just an American corruption of the word 'nigre' (said 'nigra').

Prior to this Europeans used the word 'Ethiopian' or another variant like Ethiop or Aethiop (going back to Greece) to mean black Africans.

Answer 7

i have no idea