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.
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wieson@lemmy.world 2 months agoAnd in German they’re “Runners”
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
apolo399@lemmy.world 2 months 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.