köken: From Arabic مَقَال (maqāl), denoting a literary genre of a short and morally instructive bit. Cognate with Tatar мәкаль (mäqäl), Kazakh мақал (maqal), Kyrgyz макал (makal), Uzbek maqol, Uyghur ماقال (maqal, “proverb, adage”), etc.
eş: credo, kredo, motto, idea przewodnia, myśl przewodnia, reguła życiowa
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der. Proto-Italic *wiðō Latin *vidō Latin dīvidō Latin dīvīsus Latin *dīvīsāre Vulgar Latin *dēvīsāreder. Old French deviser Old French devise French devisebor. Polish dewiza Borrowed…
From ord (“word”) + sprog (“language, speech”). Compare Swedish ordspråk and Norwegian Bokmål ordspråk,with a reversed order of similar elements, German Sprichwort.