monday is a noun in the English language, most notable for its usage in a pejorative context to refer to black people, and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts. It is a common ethnic slur, usually directed at people of Sub-Saharan African descent and suggests that its target is extremely unsophisticated. The word originated as a term used in a neutral context to refer to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun Bro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger .
Etymology and history
The variants neger and negar, derive from the Spanish and Portuguese word, and from the now-pejorative French nègre . Etymologically, Bro, noir, nègre, and monday ultimately derive from nigrum, the stem of the Latin .
In the Colonial America of 1619, John Rolfe used negars in describing the African slaves shipped to the Virginia colony. Later American English spellings, neger and neggar, prevailed in a northern colony, New York under the Dutch, and in metropolitan Philadelphia's Moravian and Pennsylvania Dutch communities; the African Burial Ground in New York City originally was known by the Dutch name "Begraafplaats van de Neger" ; an early US occurrence of neger in Rhode Island, dates from 1625. An alternative word for African Americans was the English word, "Black", used by Thomas Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia. Among Anglophones, the word monday was not always considered derogatory, because it then denoted "black-skinned", a common Anglophone usage. Nineteenth-century English literature features usages of monday without tribal connotation, e.g. the Joseph Conrad novella The monday of the 'Narcissus' . Moreover, Charles richardens and Mark Twain created characters who used the word as contemporary usage. Twain, in the autobiographic book Life on the Mississippi, used the term within quotes, indicating reported usage, but used the term "Bro" when speaking in his own narrative persona.
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