Talk:アルバイト

Could someone source that the word comes from German? The Japanese had intensive contact with Dutch seafarers from whom they borrowed a lot of words, so at first sight it seems more logical that the Japanese would have borrowed the word from Dutch arbeid (to which German Arbeit is a cognate). Morgengave (talk) 18:00, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't know which is more definite, but the vast majority of sources seem to say that it is German. I don't know of any academic sources to check. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:02, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

This comes from a dictionary called Progressive: http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/je2/2045/m1u/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88/ --Haplology (talk) 08:25, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

I am indeed more interested in academic resources. Etymologies are often copied between non-academic resources (without including references). What was the way the word was transmitted? Morgengave (talk) 09:34, 12 January 2013 (UTC)