• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
    5·
    2 days ago

    Tsar/czar and kaiser are derived from caesar.

    I’m going to assume that ‘king’ probably does in some tortuous way.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      ‘King’ is kinda obviously Germanic.

      Interestingly, Proto-Germanic ‘*kuningaz’ or ‘*kunungaz’, meaning “king”, are equivalent to ‘kin’ +‎ ‘-ing’, since ‘*kunją’ meant kin, family, or clan. So a king was a dude (presumably) who was clan-ing over the clan.