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lime@feddit.nu 1 year agojesters? they’re bishops…
sheogorath@lemmy.world 1 year ago
wieson@feddit.org 1 year ago
You may look a bit beyond the edge of the anglophone world.
lime@feddit.nu 1 year ago
well in my language they’re “runners” so i guess i should have thought a bit harder there…
Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Sorry. Did a direct translation of the French name without thinking.
lime@feddit.nu 1 year ago
well, til!
wieson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And in German they’re “Runners”
apolo399@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ll add Spanish! “Alfil”, taken from arabic “(al-)fil”, taken from persian “pil”, meaning “the elephant”, since at some point in the past the piece was, evidently, an elephant.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would have figured Germany would have been the one that changed whatever it was before to bishops in the medieval times on account of how important bishops were for the king/emperor’s military.