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Is 'police' that universal? I know Irish have the Gardaí - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda_S%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda_S%C3%ADoch
by gilleain 3y ago
Is 'police' that universal? I know Irish have the Gardaí - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda_S%C3%ADoch%C3%A1na 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic_Police) but indeed most places use some variant of 'police'.
- swiftcoder 3y ago`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`.