somethingDotExe@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 11 days agoA name more fittinglemmy.worldimagemessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up1560arrow-down154
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minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 days agoTsar/czar and kaiser are derived from caesar. I’m going to assume that ‘king’ probably does in some tortuous way.
minus-square[object Object]@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-210 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.