Nanaga, Nanaga (Hoogte), Ncanara
The tar road from Port Elizabeth runs over Nanaga height and also becomes (northeast of it) Nanaga. Nanaga height is also the intersection of tar roads serving Alexandria and Cookhouse. The Xhosity of the Khoekhoense Nanaga, written with an -c- who reflects the dental tongue in their system (cf. N-C-anara), gives the suction patch that would otherwise; lost. According to this, the old name is read as ǀ Nana-GA. The -ga, in Xhosa with their Guttural -ra-, is obviously like Nama -Xa, how many, such as means 'many, rich in', such as the African suffix-rich or -rike. It refers to the ǀ Nana - What is plentiful there Nana- for the cross (on the back). Look at the nomenclature from the immovable environment, then we seem to get a clue. We work here with the argument that if two place names are together, one inland and the Other Dutch, both old, then the accompanying Dutch name in many cases Height and over the border farm south named 'Kenkel-Bosch Strang', with its strikingly old spelling form -bo SCH as second member. Today, on maps the member 'Kenkelbosch' based on the old farm name, spelled 'Kinkelbos', so for the station and the post office. We believe there is good soil for the suspicion that Kenkelbosch translates the old Nana of 'Nanarian Location'. The Kinkelbos is the Tetragonia Frutiosa (Smith 1966 CNSAP 291). The trunk and twigs have a light twist. Hence the folk name (Smith Tap) maybe it is no coincidence that the said Nama word ǀ Nana means 'Schwanken (von Schwachheit)' that can remind a twist. The namanaam for the Kinkelbos does not find us back in our material. Perhaps we have a contribution to the old vocabulary of Khoens via the onomstastic here. We suggest that Nanagas means the 'kelbos- rich place'.
