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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by gilleain on Friday September 08, 2023 @05:26AM (#37431445)
Is 'police' that universal? I know Irish have the Gardaí - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda_S%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na.

Yes, Icelandic has 'Lögreglu' and Greece has Αστυνομία (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic_Police) but indeed most places use some variant of 'police'.

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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? by swiftcoder on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:22AM (#37431804)
`Gardaí` is more of a formal name for a specific insitution. The Irish language still has the more generic word `póilín`, which appears to be at least phonetically related to the english `police`.
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