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Posted By: jimthedog Caesar - 02/03/02 07:04 PM
Are there any words for king derived from Caesar besides in Russian and German?

Posted By: Keiva Re: Caesar - 02/03/02 07:09 PM
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!

Posted By: jimthedog Re: Caesar - 02/03/02 07:13 PM
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.

Posted By: Bingley Re: Caesar - 02/04/02 04:38 AM
Kaisar is the Indonesian for emperor, presumably from Dutch.

Bingley
Posted By: NicholasW Kaisar - 02/05/02 11:14 AM
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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