Words with foreign sources still preferred in business today. Avantaj, okazyon,iskonto, kupon
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Avantaj: Yarar, menfaat TR; advantage EN[1] fromFR avantage öncelik, bir oyunda rakibe tanınan avans from FR avant ön, önce +age → avan avantaj [ c (1930) : Artık avantaj yok. Her sahada mücadele ediyoruz. ] dezavantaj "[Fr désavantage]" [ m (1953) : kuru ve çimen sahalarına alışan Cruzeirolular için bugünkü şartlar bir dezavantaj teşkil etmektedir. ]
Iskonto: indirim TR; iskonta/iskonto [ Kamus-ı Türki (1900) ]
discount EN[2] fromIT sconto indirim, hesaptan düşme scontare indirim yapmak; OldLat excomputare Lat ex+ computare hesaplamak
Iskonto: discount[3] FromFR occasion fırsat, rastlantı, hadise LAT occāsio rastlantı LAT occidere, occās- üstüne veya önüne düşmek, rast gelmek +tion LAT ob+ cadere, cas- düşmek kadans
"satışta fırsat, tenzilat" [ Akşam (gazete) (1932) : ...okazyon, büyük tenzilat levhasını kapıya as. ]
Kupon: coupon, vaucher EN[4] FromFR coupon kesilen sey; Fr couper kesmek
"tahvilin temettü almak için kesilen bölümü" [ Ahmet Rasim, Şehir Mektupları (1898) : şimdi de biri çıkmış, elinde bir demet kupon ] "gazeteden kesilen indirim belgesi" [ İlan-ı Ticaret: Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e İstanbul (1923) : gazetemizin kuponlarını aynen para yerine kabul eden mağazalardandır ] "kesilmiş kumaş parçası" [ TDK, Türkçe Sözlük, 1. Baskı (1945) ]
[1] advantage (n.)
early 14c., avantage, "position of being in advance of another," from Old French avantage "advantage, profit; superiority" (12c.), from avant "before," probably via an unrecorded Late or Medieval Latin *abantaticum, from Latin abante "from before," composed of ab "from" (see ab-) + ante "before, in front of, against" (from PIE root *ant- "front, forehead"). Compare advance (v.).
Advantage is the possession of a good vantage-ground for the attainment of ulterior objects of desire .... [Century Dictionary]
The unetymological -d- is a 16c. intrusion on the analogy of Latin ad- words. Meaning "any condition favorable to success, a favoring circumstance" (the opposite of a disadvantage) is from late 15c. Tennis score sense is from 1640s (in the writings of John Milton). Phrase to take advantage of is from late 14c. as "avail oneself of," also "impose upon." To have the advantage of (someone) "have superiority over" is from 1560s.
[2] occasion (n.)
late 14c., "opportunity; grounds for action, state of affairs that makes something else possible; a happening, occurrence," from Old French ochaison, ocasion "cause, reason, excuse, pretext; opportunity" (13c.) or directly from Latin occasionem (nominative occasio) "opportunity, appropriate time," in Late Latin "cause," from occasum, occasus, past participle of occidere "fall down, go down," from ob "down, away" (see ob-) + -cidere, combining form of cadere "to fall" (from PIE root *kad- "to fall"). The notion is of a "falling together," or juncture, of circumstances.
occasion (v.)
mid-15c., "to bring (something) about," from occasion (n.), or else from Old French occasionner "to cause," from Medieval Latin occasionare, from Latin occasionem (see occasion (n.)). Related: Occasioned; occasioning.
[3] discount (n.)
1620s, "abatement," alteration of 16c. French descompte, from Medieval Latin discomputus (source of Italian disconto), from discomputare (see discount (v.)). Meaning "deduction for early payment" is from 1680s; meaning "reduction in the price of goods" attested by 1837.
discount (v.)
1620s, "reckon as an abatement or deduction," from Old French desconter (13c., Modern French décompter), from Medieval Latin discomputare, from dis- (see dis-) + computare "to count" (see compute). Hence, "to abate, deduct" (1650s), and figurative sense "to leave out of account, disregard" (1702). Related: Discounted; discounting.
[4] coupon (n.)
1822, "certificate of interest due on a bond" (which could be cut from the bond and presented for payment), from French coupon, literally "piece cut off," from couper "to cut," from coup "a blow" (see coup). Meaning widened to "discount ticket" 1860s by British travel agent Thomas Cook. The specific advertising sense is from 1906.
COUPON. A financial term, which, together with the practice, is borrowed from France.