Biekoes
Mrs. Van Zyl would like to know the meaning. We have no other indications except the sound image and the fact that milk bushes occur on top of the Bokkeveld Mountains, O.A. appears farm names such as 'milkbos back', 'milkboom', both east of Nieuwoudtville. Bie, exchange form of Nama dei- for 'milk' has been recorded in 1652 by Van Riebeeck (cf. Hott 382), and the member -koe- vote well with Nama Gui- = 'der Milch- Busch' (Rust 1960 DNW 42). The change k- (from K-OE) and G (from G-UI) is normal, in fact, for the ear of the white in the early years Allonfo- down k- and g in fact. The -Eo- gets its sound value as in Afrikaans, the -ui- as in German. The Fern. Sing, - suggests that the name can be that of a fountain or settlement (eg. a kraal). The meaning is probably 'milkBosphontein'. Now it is striking that the farm Bokoes no longer appears on the Topo Cadastral Series 1966 sheet 3118 Calvinia, not at all at the corresponding topographical series 1968, but we still find it on the series 1972 scale 1:50 000, and then as 'Beekoes' head' (on the farm Grasberg 642), and as 'Upper Beekoes' and 'bottom Beekoes' (on Claudskraal 645). The homestead (with telephone connection) and the bead lies on bottom of Biekoes where The fountain could also have been located that gave the farm the name, , a forest with a latex or milking juice, and with the member bidding means 'milk', the name is almost further explained by complementation to adapt to his Afrikaans form.