1640_SKCPN

Kei

Kei

K 3228 CB

Toponymica Hottentotica: A2 (H-Z)

28.375

-32.625

12.5 km radius

[Opmerking: Gei, Kei en variante in die betekenis 'groot' word tans gespel Kai]

afr Beutler 1752 GM RZA 3 305 '...arriveerden wy in den agtermiddag te 3 uuren voor de riviere IJ beteykende soo veel als Zandrivier alwaar wy campeerden'. Ibid. 302 en elders. Ibid. 330 '...tot aan den oorspronk van de Cabeljauwsche rivier, alwaar op seekere plaats in het Hottentots Key genaamt halte hielden'. Sparrman 1776 2 146 'The more considerable rivers which run through the country of the Snese-Hottentots, are said to be only the following: t’Kamsi- t'kay, t'Nu-t'kay, Little Zomo, Great Zomo...' Van Reenen 1791 VRV 8 176 '...some of the party rode on horseback to the White Keys river...' Ibid. 177 '...we passed two more rivers, which discharge themselves into the Black Key, and have the same name: which name that river has acquired from the rocks about it being of that colour'. Lichtenstein 1803-6 RISA 1 468 [volgens aanwysing van dr Van der Kemp 467) 'Weiter...trifft man den Gobuhssi und Karoonga, welche beide sich in den schwarzen Tey sttirtzen. Dieser Fluss vereinigt sich nachher mit dem weissen Tey und heisst dann Amera'. Chase JC 1838 Map of the Eastern Frontier (vertaal dit met] 'The river of pain'. Engelbrecht JA 1957 in brief aan Holt B 1959 PNTT 19 'I have, therefore, no hesitation in thinking that Kei is Hot. kei meaning great...' [en Holt self aid.] 'The Kei so outstrips adjoining streams in size, that to the Hottentots it was simply the Great River'. Kokot 1972 SESA 6 321 'The name is from Hottentot and may signify ‘sandy’ or else ‘white, gleaming’.'

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