Where does the "n" word come from?

Question

not offending anyone...I am just curious

Answer 1

I believe it is derived from its origin, which would be Nigeria.
But then ***** is also spanish. Meaning black.
The blacks came over as slaves to the rich in the old days before they became free. Nigerians, ******, and then some idiot got a bit carried away and the N word came into play.
Very Very offensive and hurtful......

Answer 2

it really means black from the spanish root *****=black
but it's also a degrading, insulting term that slave master used when referring to their slave. they use it do dehumanize them, show that the inferiority of the slave. but sadly over time people keep using it and the some colored skin people today use it sometimes as a "good" thing, like affection among themselves and friendly love.

Answer 3

If you're one,you should know or ask your parents.

Answer 4

If you look it up, it means ignorant person. It probably stems from a vast majority of freed slaves were uneducated, therfore ignorant, hence the word.

Answer 5

it is derived from the latin word 'niger' which means black.

Answer 6

the country of niger, in africa i believe this is where the word originally cam from. then stupid people attached hatred to it and used it to degrade.

Answer 7

from the river niger.....most of the slavers picked up slaves at the markets on niger river.... so when sold they were nigers and with that came *******..................the latin word for black is where ***** come from

Answer 8

The Spanish niger, meaning black, corrupted into nigra, drawled into ****--.
But its root was the word for black.

Answer 9

its a word from the roots of like niger or something and it means black in like the ancient romance languages like latin and stuff

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Answer 10

the alphabet..haha..jk

slave owners.