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by CRConrad 847 days ago
> Much like there wasn't one "Caesar", since it's a title

It wasn't (yet) a title during the lifetime of Gaius Julius Caesar, though...

> still kicking in Proto-West Germanic derivatives branching off "kaisar"

Like the non-Germanic Slavic "Tsar".

> Sextus Julius Caesar in around 200 BC, 300 years before Gaius Julius Caesar was born.

Did you accidentally swap the 200 and 300, or are you saying Julius was born ~100 AD?