Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-98.196.10.43-20160725043225/@comment-27325344-20160725103009

As BlueLuna said, Maltese was used as an example. The text said "many languages," though -- so if you're curious what else that includes:

Many of the Romance languages have "re" as a kind of root sound for "king." It's "re" in Italian, "rey" in Spanish, "rege" in Romanian, "roi" in French, and the parent language Latin uses "rex" (which, by the way, is where the English word "regicide" - king killing - gets its meaning from).

Maltese is a Semetic language, which means it comes from a different proto language than the Romance languages. Unlike the rest of the languages in its family, though, Maltese uses the Latin script for writing.

Basically, a lot of words get shifted and borrowed between languages - language in general is really messy.

(And for the record, "king" in Japanese is 王(Ou) with the 様(sama) added for respect.)