Talk:авторитарный

Etymology

@Nicodene: “авторитарен”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014 states that this term indeed comes from the French, regardless of potential phonological concerns. Specifically the line reads "— From French autoritaire 'authoritarian' via Russian авторитарный." Kiril kovachev (talk・contribs) 18:47, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Kiril kovachev. That's interesting, thank you. Do you suppose the Polish form derives from Russian as well, or is it vice-versa? There is also the German autoritär to consider. This class of 'Europeanisms' can be a bit of a headache etymologically. Nicodene (talk) 18:53, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

@Nicodene Frankly I can't say, like you say it's quite complicated, and I have no source on that relationship. If I had to speculate, the Polish should come from one of the forms with the /u/ still intact, that is from French or German. But for the record, the Polish page cites 2 sources that the Polish is actually derived from English. Which I think is a bit rarer for these kinds of words, but not at all impossible. Kiril kovachev (talk・contribs) 18:57, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

P.S. If about the German you meant its own derivation, that one looks to have been explained as either internal German reasoning or from French as well. I believe that checks out. Kiril kovachev (talk・contribs) 18:59, 16 September 2023 (UTC)