Dev Of Cancelled ‘90s Witcher Game Explains Why It Got Cut

Dev Of Cancelled ‘90s Witcher Game Explains Why It Got Cut
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I am confused.
I always thought “witcher” to be an actual English word.
Was it really invented for the game?

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Context.

It’s not that he invented the word, exactly.

It’s that he coined the term as a translation for the Polish word. Because the Polish word didn’t have a direct English translation before, and now it basically does.

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The Polish translation of witcher czarodziej, I guess?
(Didn’t find it in a Polish-English dictionary, but my Polish-German dictionary tells my that czarodziej is the translation of the German Hexer, which means witcher in English).

So how does czarodziej differ from wiedźmin?

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Just discovered it is even more complex.
Apparently the Polish name is an invention by the author, too.

From Wikipedia:

Sapkowski states that he believes the word “witcher” is a natural male version of the English word “witch”, and implied that the similarity between those two words, as well as between the German terms, was the inspiration coining wiedźmin as a new Polish word.

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