Braii or braiivlace?

[Lrntolive]

So I've started reading a book my wife read in college. It's called Cry of the Kalahari from about 1980. Up to this point, it has been an interesting book about a researcher and his wife trying to study predators in the wild. Not the over-the-top animal rights type I would have expected. They actually understood hunting in 1975 and realized it was a part of human nature.

What does have me stumped are some of the Afrikaans or other language that they call out in the book. For instance, braii or braiivlace, as they call it being a kind of bar-b-que, but which word is truly correct?

Also, how about some of these words:
Gotsa molelo!
Tau, morena
go siami
tau, kwa

I'm sure there will be more, but I'd like to know exactly what some of this means. I'll add more as I read the book, but I'm only half way through it.

 

[siml]

The correct spelling is "braai" Afrikaans for barbque.

Tau.....lion

Morena...person of respect/boss

Gotsa molelo.....do you understand...

Kwa...to/go

The words in different text can mean different things.

 

[Lrntolive]

@TMS Thanks for the translation. I don't know why they spell "braai" with two "i"s in the book versus just one, but they did write out the word "braiivlace."

Would this be spelled differently in different countries? Or is it pretty standard?

 

[siml]

Braiivlace..............braai vleis, is correct spelling(Afrikaans).

Braai vleis directly translated.....barbcue meat.