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Are there any words for king derived from Caesar besides in Russian and German?
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Durn ya, jtd! I was trying to grab the 20,000th post under Q&A, but you beat me to it!  I am in awe of your swift fingers!
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I think you probably went into the reply screen just as I went out, because I went into miscellany before I saw the new post mark on Q&A.
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Kaisar is the Indonesian for emperor, presumably from Dutch.
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The form Kaisar seems to be in several eastern languages. There's a British medal called the Kaisar-I-Hind Medal, which presumably means Emperor of India, but I can't say exactly what language. The -i- connective is the Dari (Afghan) version of the Persian -e-. I don't know whether it was borrowed into any Indian languages, such as Urdu. This construction is Persian, and is not native to true Indian languages.
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