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lime@feddit.nu 1 month agojesters? they’re bishops…
sheogorath@lemmy.world 1 month ago
wieson@feddit.org 1 month ago
You may look a bit beyond the edge of the anglophone world.
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
well in my language they’re “runners” so i guess i should have thought a bit harder there…
Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sorry. Did a direct translation of the French name without thinking.
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
well, til!
wieson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And in German they’re “Runners”
apolo399@lemmy.world 1 month 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 month 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.