• @tal
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    8 months ago

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leon

    That’s apparently the spelling for “lion” in a number of languages.

    Breton, Interlingua, Irish, Lombard, Middle English, Occitan, Old English, Old French, Old Spanish, Old Swedish, Papiamentu, Piedmontese, Venetian, Volapük.

    • ThelsimM
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      38 months ago

      Thank you for looking this up. I suspected it would be an old word, but never imagined it to be used in so many languages.