Talk:gwhl

Is Ottoman Turkish cevher some kind of back-formation from cevahir (which continues Arabic plural form jawāhir), or it is an independent borrowing from Arabic jauhar? --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 20:11, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

It is from jauhar, the diphthong always becomes ev in Turkish. --Z 20:51, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

So both singular and plural of the same Ottoman Turkish word have been independently borrowed from Arabic forming an irregular paradigm? --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 21:09, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Yes I think. --Z 23:25, 11 July 2013 (UTC)