köken: Inherited from Latin dictus, dictum. In some Old Spanish texts, it originally appeared as decho; it was later altered with the influence of the -i- from conjugated forms of decir (e.g. digo, dice, diga, etc.), or a result of metaphony from palatalization. Compare English dictum.
aile: antedicho, del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho, dicharachero, dicho y hecho, sobredicho
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…
köken: A later variant of adā̆giō, ostensibly from ad- (“toward, to”) + aiō (“say”), but due to sporadic attestation and the word-internal a might not be inherited and rather formed to adigō (“drive, hurl, compel”), from ad- (“toward, to”) + agō (“do, make”). The word-internal a may be either by the same vowel harmony as in alacer, calamitās, segetis, or else means the vowel is long - cf. indāgō,…