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What The Bishop Chess Piece Is Called In Europe (lemmy.world)
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[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Laufar sounds like a loan word from German Läufer

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Because it is.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

We have hundreds if not thousands of deformed and abused 'loanwords' from german in the northern part of the country.