Talk:advice

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)