In both languages, oor means "ear", but in Afrikaans oor (derived from Dutch over) can also mean "over" or "about", as in hy praat oor die weer ("he talks about the weather", or in Dutch hij spreekt over het weer).Hy praat oor die weer, en meer, Netwerk24, 28 November 2014 Although Dutch and Afrikaans share a number of words prefixed with , such as oorsprong ("origin"), this is an unrelated word meaning "original".
