• @wieson
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      74 months ago

      And in German they’re “Runners”

      • @apolo399
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        44 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.

      • @Buddahriffic
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        14 months 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.