Timeline for Does the name "Alfero" mean anything?
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| Dec 19, 2013 at 21:01 | comment | added | Alfero Chingono | Thanks so much @nico. So, which is the answer then? Or you all saying the same thing? | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 20:05 | comment | added | nico | @DaG: in effect the Treccani dictionary says that the original word for the chess piece was alfino, which derives from al-fil. This was then altered into alfiere. | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 17:35 | comment | added | DaG | If I understand correctly, they are two (or more) different words that happen to result in Italian into almost equal ones (and perhaps they influenced each other along the way, as often happens). The above “or more” refers to the fact that the alfiere as one of the pieces of chess (corresponding in English to the bishop), derives from another Arabic word, al-fil (elephant). | |
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| Dec 18, 2013 at 15:57 | history | edited | martina.physics | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 18, 2013 at 15:55 | history | answered | Phoenix87 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |