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Spread of four words for 'camel' across the Old World (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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