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What The Bishop Chess Piece Is Called In Europe (lemmy.world)
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[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago

Evesque would be bishop, yea... I'm surprised it doesn't share the french word (jester)