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Spread of four words for 'camel' across the Old World (sopuli.xyz)

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[-] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Oh god oh fuck. Shit.

This applies to Czech (velbloud) as well. The thing is, we already call hippos elephants. The Czech word "hroch" is related to the chess piece "rook" in English. What about the Czech name for elephant then? It's "slon" and it means lion.

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[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

The polish word for elephant is słoń, it's very similar

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