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Thread #169535   Message #4097811
Posted By: Jack Campin
15-Mar-21 - 03:33 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: about two German words
Subject: RE: Folklore: about two German words
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.