"Soviet" is derived from a Russian word signifying council, assembly, advice, harmony, concord... related to Slavic "věst" ("news"), English "wise", the root in "ad-vis-or" (which came to English through French), or the Dutch "weten" (to know; cf. "wetenschap" = science).
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The Russian wiki disagrees with the English interpretation. I speak/read the language and the Russian wiki that describes «Совет» is more correct. Maybe google translate will do the trick? https://ru.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/совет
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Not sure what I’m missing here. If we take the Russian language wiki as ground truth, what’s wrong with the etymology given on the English language wiki?pic.twitter.com/1zuYXbBQtS
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