tsar

The story

1. LatinCaesar
2. Proto-Germanic*kaisaraz
3. Proto-Slavic*cěsařь
4. Old East Slavicцѣсарь (cěsarĭ)
5. Old East Slavicцьсарь (cĭsarĭ)
6. Russianцарь (carʹ)
7. English todaytsar

Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ), from Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of Caesar and Kaiser. The spelling tsar began to replace the older czar in the nineteenth century. Compare Medieval Greek Τζαῖσαρ (Tzaîsar).

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