Talk:dé

re: french

" or alternatively of Arabic origin; cf أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād). " This also appears in the entry for "Dado" in Spanish, which is much more plausible in that language because of its much more direct history with the Arabic language. French has Arabic loanwords but they typically come by way of other romance languages, and aren't organic developments in the language. I don't see any literature cited that supports a Late Latin borrowing of أَعْدَاد, or of Old French borrowing *dadu from Old Spanish or something similar. I was going to remove but I opted not because it's not totally preposterous, but there is no literature that backs up this versus Datum/Data being the origin Nonscio237 (talk) 17:20, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

e: on the entry Dado for Spanish, there is a citation from the RAE https://dle.rae.es/dado that supports this being the origin in Spanish. To be used here there might be a need for additional literature connecting it to French however.