Portuguese-based creole languages meaning "in" and/or "on", which would come from the Portuguese contraction "na" meaning "in the" (feminine singular). The Portuguese word for "creole" is "crioulo", which derives from the verb "criar" ("to raise", "to bring up") and a suffix "-oulo" of debated origin. Originally the word was used to distinguish the members of any ethnic group who were born and raised in the colonies from those who were born in their homeland. In Africa it was often applied to locally born people of (wholly or partly) Portuguese descent, as opposed to those born in Portugal; whereas in Brazil it was also
Kutsche Afrikaans Coetzee. The related German term "Kutscher" refers to someone who drives a coach, "viz.", a coachman; however, according to Hans Bahlow, it can also be a Germanized name, "Kutscher(a)", derived from the Czech Kučera, meaning "curly." People with variants of the surname with either etymology include: Kutsche Kutsche (), with numerous other spellings, is a German surname with several etymologies, including one Hungarian and several Slavic. According to the onomast Hans Bahlow, the name "Kutsche"/"Kutscha" with different spellings, when found in the historical east (central) German linguistic area (such as Saxony, Bohemia and Silesia), is "clearly of Slavic origin,