355: columbus Nov 28, 2015
Ordinary words between languages are different; that's part what makes
learning new languages difficult. Nevertheless, proper nouns tend to be
the same, especially for the names of individual, although there are
always exceptions. Columbus in German is similar, Kolumbus, but the
genocidal Christopher Columbus–a man after whom cities, a river, a
university, and even a country are named–was not born with the name we
use in English. In Italian (his given name) was Cristoforo Columbo,
while the Spanish was Cristóbal Colón, and in French his name is
Christophe Colomb.