Springer

🏷  Semitic phoenix pun spook name · name   —   by Gerry · Jun 2019 · 41 words

The name Springer, which is also the name for the “knight” piece ♘ in chess, is used by aristocrats because in the Semitic languages a “springing horse” was called pnq, a homonym for Punic & Phoenician. See the Phoenician horse-head prows.

🏷  Semitic phoenix pun spook name · name