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Originally posted by Monkeyboy_McGee
And maybe...now, this is just a bit of guesswork, here...but MAYBE, just MAYBE....Dustari is a made-up nation on some fictional game created for Role-playing. ie making stuff up and pretending to be/be part of something fictional (in most cases anyway :P ). So maybe, just maaayyybe, dustari has nothing to do with the real civilisations like england and france, and this thread has no real backup? o_o


Still a fun thread though

It does. Dun wanna explain, but it does.

I believe that the word "Duke" originally came from the Latin word "Dux", meaning "Leader"

Isn't Rex leader? But hey, dude...

Latin -> French -> English. The French took the word Duc, then the English took it.

duke
A nobleman with the highest hereditary rank, especially a man of the highest grade of the peerage in Great Britain.
A sovereign prince who rules an independent duchy in some European countries.
Abbr. D. or Du. Used as the title for such a nobleman.
Slang. A fist. Often used in the plural: Put up your dukes!
Botany. A type of cherry intermediate between a sweet and a sour cherry.

intr.v. duked, duk·ing, dukes
To fight, especially with fists: duking it out.


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[Middle English, from Old French duc, from Latin dux, duc-, leader, from dcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European Roots. N., sense 4, short for Duke of Yorks rhyming slang for forks, fingers.]