Just to clarify, I am trying to get ALL the words that mean royalty or
peerage in a wide variety of languages. I am a member of the Society for
Creative Anachronism which researches the medieval period when royalty was
at its height. I would say "queen" but that is ONE country, not every
country in medieval Europe, and there are the following peerages, that I
know of, in the world at the present day.
England - British Sign Language
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Norway
Sweden
Spain
Andorra
Liechtenstein
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
Japan
Thailand
Burma
Tonga
I presume that each country has its own peerage, and its own sign language,
and I am looking for comparative equivalents.
----- Original Message -----
From: Angus B. Grieve-Smith
To:
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: Charles' request
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Charles Butler wrote:
>
> > It's koeniga, German word for queen.
>
> I wondered if it might not be something related to that, but I
> figured that if it were, you'd just write "queen."
>
> -Angus B. Grieve-Smith
> Linguistics Department
> University of New Mexico
>
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