Talk:devshirme

Possible Origin from Arabic
My jar of mustard: the term is ultimately from Arabic. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 17:41, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Do both of you have anything to say about my mustard? --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 19:28, 31 May 2017 (UTC)


 * I don't understand what you are asking. What does "my jar of mustard" or "my mustard" have to do with ? As to "ultimately from Arabic", cannot be originally Arabic. —Stephen (Talk) 21:45, 31 May 2017 (UTC)


 * : I got the mustard bit from a German idiom. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 07:33, 1 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I guess you're thinking that German dazugeben sounds as though it might come from "dawšīrma". There is no relation. Dazugeben is from +  (or ) +, all very Germanic and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. —Stephen (Talk) 19:26, 1 June 2017 (UTC)