Appendix talk:Proto-Slavic nouns/People

*tъlmačь does not originate from Turkic
The Dictionnaire Étymologique of Peter Skok describes the South Slavic words as having Arabic origin (no mention about Russian толмач) and that the Turkic is from Arabic. However, the Etymology of толмач claims Turkic origin. Skok again explains that the origin of the Arabic word in its turn is derived from either Akkadian or Hittite (i. e. ultimately IE origin), whence is to infer that in no way is the word Turkic. Thence, the South Slavic words are not Turkic. But is this enough to confute the claim about Turkic origin in толмач? Bogorm 17:32, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

grandson
Is there a Proto-Slavic word for vnuk/wnuk/unuk/внук? Maro 17:47, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Appendix talk:List of Proto-Slavic nouns/People
Quite often people leaving their comments about origin of some words do not really have enough information about the subject. Very unfortunately such opinions appear without review and comments from experts' side and stay there for months or even years and some people use them as references. For example considering origination of the word "tolmach" from the word "terchuman" or "terguman" (arabic origination) is wrond. It is really of Turkic origin, but not of Tukic from Ottoman but much earlier times. The source word is "dilmanch" (shown slovenian versions actually maintain almost the original prononciation - telmach or tolmach), from the root word "dil" or "tel" - literrally meaning "language/tong". "Dilmanch" - literally means "knowing language/tong".