Do you know that "bee" and "bull" are close relatives? Scientists still argue about the origin of some words that we use every day, what does not prevent us from speaking these words.
Money
If today, speaking the word "money", we first of all remember about Western currencies, then money in Russia, definitely, had Eastern roots. This word could have entered the Russian language in two different ways. From Iranian traders and travelers, who then had silver coins called "tenge" (Middle Persian dāng "coin"), or from the Tatar-Mongols, who later conquered the territory of present-day Russia for a long time.
Moreover, the source of this root in the Turkic languages, to which the Mongol-Tatar dialect also belongs, could be three different things. First, the supreme heavenly deity of the Turkic-Mongol pantheon is Tengri. Secondly, the collection of money from trade transactions - tamga (originally "brand", "seal"). From there, by the way, our customs also left. And thirdly, the Türkic coin tängä, the name of which, with the help of a suffix, was formed from the word “tän” denoting a squirrel. In this case, we can draw an analogy with the Old Russian word "kuna" (marten), which was called 1/22 hryvnia. It reflects the functioning of furs as money in the early stages of society.
Girl
It would seem that everything is very simple: the girl is from a virgin. But if you dig deeper, it turns out that the Proto-Slavic * děva originates in the Proto-Indo-European word * dhē (i̯), which means "to suck, feed with the help of the breast." In this, by the way, she is close to children (dѣtѩ), who come from the same root. From there, the Old Russian verb "to reach" - "to breastfeed."
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Guy
It's not that simple with the guys either. This word, most likely, comes from the Proto-Slavic * рrę - a diminutive nickname from рrobьkъ (here you can recall the Ukrainian boy), going back to "rob" (boy).
The original root here is * orbę, which also gave "child" and "slave", which developed from one of the meanings of the word "rob" - "orphan", since, according to some sources, it was orphans who did the most difficult housework.
Dinner
Russian words for meals have a fairly transparent logic of education. Breakfast comes from the combination "for the morning", which means a period of time - "during the morning."
Lunch was formed from the ancient prefix * ob- and the root * ed- and meant, in general … "overeat". Indeed, according to the rules of normal nutrition in our latitudes, lunch should be the most plentiful meal.
It may seem that dinner is when everything has already been redone and you can start eating. Dal is hinting about this in his dictionary, but still the word "supper" comes from the Old Russian "ug", that is, "south". And all because they sat down to supper when the sun was in the south. Originally "supper" was called an afternoon snack. In other Slavic languages, dinner is called "supper"
Pillow
Scientists have been fighting with this word for several centuries. Dahl suggests that the pillow is something that is put under the ear. Fasmer, Shansky and Chernykh are sure that this is something that is blown away by something (down, feathers, cotton wool, and even holofiber, be it wrong). There are also less serious, but more emotional versions of the origin of this word: 1) what they cry into when it is necessary to pour out the SOUL, and 2) what the SOUL
Fool
They say that fools in their most widespread meaning now were born thanks to the archpriest Avvakum. So in the 17th century, in his writings, he called rhetoricians, philosophers, logicians and other "champions of demonic wisdom", comparing them to buffoons.
However, the root from which this word comes from itself was ready to take on the corresponding meaning. Philologists believe that "fool" came from the Proto-Indo-European * dur (to bite, sting) and at first meant "bitten", "stung", then transformed into "mad, crazy, sick" (from a bite) and only then turned into "bad, stupid. " By the way, the ritual of initiation into buffoons also has to do with this. According to one of the versions, a candidate for jester before starting his professional career had to survive the bite of a viper.
Bee
Who would have thought that the bee and the bull are relatives. And if from the point of view of biology they are very far from each other, then philologically they are brother and sister.
The fact is that they come from one Proto-Slavic root, which denoted a sound of a certain character. Hence, by the way, the outdated word "buchat" (buzz, buzz) and the insect. The bee itself was written in Old Russian like this - it was, but after the fall of the reduced ones and the stunning of B in front of H, it acquired its present appearance.
