Talk:borcan

Attested or not
@Einstein2 I would defer to your judgement—I claim no expertise in anything beyond mere definitions—I just need you to check DELR, the most up-to-date Romanian etymological dictionary and the source I unwisely used without citing, and confirm. The line is found after double slashes, which indicates it is considered improbable. Still, I do notice that the source they cite is much older than the paper you reference. ―⁠Biolongvistul (talk) 19:47, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for linking the DELR entry. Unfortunately, I could not gain access to the work referenced next to the borkancsó etymology (L. Tamás, Etymologisch-historisches Wörterbuch der ungarischen Elemente im Rumänischen). Nonetheless, contrary to what the dictionary says, (and ) is easily attestable in Hungarian (although the current standard terms are  and ). Benő 2008 (and Péntek–Benő 2020) cite borkán as an example of a term borrowed back into Hungarian from Romanian (borkanna > borcan > borkán). While I'm not saying that is the definite etymology of borcan, I think it is worth listing it as a possibility. Einstein2 (talk) 20:17, 22 June 2024 (UTC)