Talk:advice
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Chloez12
I don´t know if the sillyness in this one had to be removed. Humor was allowed as far as I understood. Anyway, it was not me who put it in there and maybe it doesn´t have its place in a dictionary, so it doesn´t matter to me what happens with it.Polyglot 16:50 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)
I added the definition of advice as counselling to perform a specific legal action. Actually that is not what legal advice is, but the pre-existing definition made it sound as if legal advice could only recommend an illegal course of action. Maybe some people think of lawyers like that? ;-) Proper legal advice does not recommend any course of action, it just illustrates the consequences of various options. EdH (talk) 01:48, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- I need to find some sources but I believe advice was a merged etymology with the French "to see" and the Turkish "vizier" - a helper/minister. A total coincidence as the one who sees/the seer is associated with the Mesopotamian adviser to the king.
- Etymology[edit] From Ottoman Turkish وزیر (vezir) (Turkish vezir) (plausibly via French visir, vizir or Spanish visir), from Arabic وَزِير (wazīr, “helper, aide, minister”, literally “one who bears (the burden of office)”). Doublet of wazir. Chloez12 (talk) 23:55, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply] Chloez12 (talk) 23:57, 24 June 2023 (UTC)