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		aitchnyu 39 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: King – man + woman is queen; but why? (2017) Did Japanese get a similar word by coincidence?

pjc50 39 days ago [–]

https://jisho.org/search/queen : which word did you mean?

The translator's curse of a language having lots of synonyms, the subtleties of which don't map directly on to English. None of those seem particularly similar to queen/kvinne?

aitchnyu 39 days ago | [–]

I mean https://jisho.org/word/%E5%A5%B3

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