The Spanish word is borrowed from Arabic fil (sounds sort of like "feel") = elephant (al fil = the elephant). Hebrew cognate is pil, sounds sort of like the English word "peel". Italian is unrelated, I think.

I think it's supposed to be "standard-bearer", which (at least in my part of the world) would more likely be called a "flag bearer" since more people are familiar with the word "flag" over "standard" when used in that sense of the word.

Also, it looks like it was originally called alfil (according to this Wikipedia article? Whereas the Italian "alfiere" came from a different Spanish word meaning "second lieutenant"?

Based on a pass with Google Translate from "The bishop is a chesspiece in chess", I think that Occitan is l'evesque and Breton eskob.

Probably originally something offensive that sounded similar in that language, and was forced to be changed to be more civilized.

Teaspag is Irish Gaelic for bishop

I dunno how it translates french “fou” into “new”. “fou” means mad/crazy.

It mixed up umlauts on Hungarian:

• Futó is the chess piece, it means runner.
• Fűtő means heater. It's strange it hallucinated 3 extra accents.

Rikis was a name for an Old Prussian or Lithuanian leader or a noble person.

Also 'elephant' in chaturanga, the game that was the ancestor of chess, and several variants.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga#Pieces_and_their_moves
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi#Elephant

We got a shooter (Czech)

Laufar sounds like a loan word from German Läufer

I get Spain, but why is it that so often with these maps Eastern Europe shares the same word as the Arab world?

Ottoman empire ruled the eastern Europe for some centuries and Ottoman language was a mixture of Turkish, Persian and Arabic.

but i assume that the elephant is Indian influence rather than Arabic. IIRC, that's also where the game is conceived

edit, yes, it literally is an elephant ☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga