somethingDotExe@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 15 days agoA name more fittinglemmy.worldimagemessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down11
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minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·15 days agoTsar/czar and kaiser are derived from caesar. I’m going to assume that ‘king’ probably does in some tortuous way.
minus-squareSlurpingPus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-214 days ago‘King’ is kinda obviously Germanic. Interestingly, Proto-Germanic ‘*kuningaz’ or ‘*kunungaz’, meaning “king”, are equivalent to ‘kin’ + ‘-ing’, since ‘*kunją’ meant kin, family, or clan. So a king was a dude (presumably) who was clan-ing over the clan.
Tsar/czar and kaiser are derived from caesar.
I’m going to assume that ‘king’ probably does in some tortuous way.
Not according to Wikipedia
‘King’ is kinda obviously Germanic.
Interestingly, Proto-Germanic ‘*kuningaz’ or ‘*kunungaz’, meaning “king”, are equivalent to ‘kin’ + ‘-ing’, since ‘*kunją’ meant kin, family, or clan. So a king was a dude (presumably) who was clan-ing over the clan.