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Virtually all ketones and aldehydes are highly odorous. . . perhaps AROMATIC is meant? This would have a significant chemical meaning. 75.157.21.5 (talk) 19:06, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Does 'musth' have an etymology which ultimately goes back to a Persian word for 'drunk'? It's plausible. But when it was added to the article by <@Heron:> in 2004, no sources were given. I'm currently looking for sources that pre-date 2004; so far, the earliest I've found have been from January 2006.
The argument that the word cannot have Persian roots because "Persian equivalent (of mast) is highly improbable to have existed since, unlike India, elephants are rarely found in Iran or Pakistan" is a spurious one: the Persian empire used war elephants. Persian use of war elephants does not necessarily mean that 'musth' has Persian etymology, but it does mean that the possibility cannot be ruled out on the basis that Persians were unfamiliar with elephants. DS (talk) 20:27, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Can't remember where I got the etymology from in 2004, but today's OED online says " < Urdu mast and its etymon Persian mast (adjective) raving mad, drunk, (noun) drunkard. Compare Sanskrit matta excited, intoxicated, mad, late Sanskrit matta drunkard, furious elephant." Its sources go back to 1839 but none of them confirms the etymology, except one from 1840 that says it's "termed by the Indians Mosti." --Heron (talk) 15:43, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]