Talk:sabie

@Bogdan; are you sure it wasn't from Hungarian? Taking into consideration that Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/sabľa itself is considered to be foreign, maybe the Hungarian origin is a better fit. --Robbie SWE (talk) 17:14, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

I assume the reason why DEX chose Old Slavic rather than Hungarian is that there is a phonetic mismatch with Hungarian, whereas the Slavic word fits phonetically:

• on early Hungarian loans, "ly" was borrowed as "l" (as in gulyás to gulaș or Erdély to Ardeal).
• whereas Proto-Slavic ľ turned into "i" (as in ľubiti to iubi or kraľь to crai)

Bogdan (talk) 19:42, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

I see. Is it worth mentioning though that the origins of the Slavic term are disputed? --Robbie SWE (talk) 20:00, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Sure. Bogdan (talk) 20:09, 3 March 2021 (UTC)