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Huizinga has much to say about the words for play in different languages.

Perhaps the most extraordinary remark concerns the Latin language.

“ It is remarkable that ludus, as the general term for play, has not only not passed into the Romance languages but has left hardly any traces there, so far as I can see ... We must leave to one side the question whether the disappearance of ludus and ludere is due to phonetic or to semantic causes .”