• @wieson
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      713 days ago

      And in German they’re “Runners”

      • @apolo399
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        413 days 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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        113 days 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.