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Jack Campin | Folklore: about two German words (20) | RE: Folklore: about two German words | 15 Mar 21 |
Can't trace "dilmaç" any further. Clauson's "Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish" doesn't list it, or "maç" on its own, though "dil" has a common secondary meaning of "informer" which has to encode the ancient Central Asian stereotype about the multilingual. |