Talk:dušman
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Latest comment: 13 years ago by Dijan
I am quite sure that word "dušman" is not Ottoman Turkish derivation as it has clear Proto-Indo European origin. Word is known in Iranian much before Ottoman conquests of Balkan, even in Sanskrit (dur-mánman) and Ancient Greek δυσ-. — This unsigned comment was added by 212.69.5.228 (talk).
- Nowhere does it on the page say that it was "derived" from Ottoman Turkish. It was however through Ottoman Turkish that the word was passed onto Serbo-Croatian. --Dijan 01:17, 31 May 2011 (UTC)