NEGUS
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I absolutely admire when insightful and enlightened peeps drop some serious knowledge on a sistah. I was talking to a friend one day and she wrote something on a piece of paper and told me to go online and look up the word that she wrote down. I looked at the paper and she wrote the word "Negus." I must of had a look of confusion on my face so she proceeded to tell me that yes it is pronounced like the word "Niggas". Talk about the things that make you go HMMMM!!! I had never seen this word before and I was intrigued to learn more about its origin and definition. According to Wikipedia the definition of Negus is "Negus ( Ge'ez , nigūś , Amharic nigūs ; cf. Tigrinya negāš ) is a title in Ge'ez , Tigrinya , Tigre and Amharic , used for a king and at times also a vassal ruler in pre-1974 Ethiopia and pre-1890 Eritrea . It is subsequently used to translate the word "king" in Biblical and other literature. It is a noun derived from the ancie