In the Old Russian alphabet, the letter x was called "dick". From here.
There was the word "Fuck" in the meaning of "cross out something on paper with a cross." And only later this word acquired its modern meaning: "spoil", "lose".
Almost all the words of the Russian language beginning with the letter "a" are borrowed. There are very few nouns of Russian origin with "a" in modern speech - these are the words "alphabet", "az", "maybe".
By the way, it is curious that almost all words whose roots are written with "?" Are Originally Russian (Except for Foreign Names of Peoples, Like "Ind? Ets". In the roots of foreign words "?" Never been written.
Prayer “Lord, have mercy! “In Greek Pronounced as“Kyrie eleison”. When Christianity appeared in Russia from Byzantium, all services were held in Greek, which was incomprehensible to ordinary people. The especially often repeated phrase "Kyrie Eleison" was transformed by the people into the word "play tricks" in the meaning of "doing something meaningless and mysterious." Later, the meaning of this word changed, and now it means "to play naughty, to play pranks."
Six cases of the Russian language are studied at school, however, various nuances of word formation allow us to say that there are at least ten cases in Russian. In the phrase “what do you want, elder? “The Last Word is the Vocal Case of the Word“old man”. "Piece of Sugar", "head of garlic" - these are examples of the use of words in quantitative - separative, or second genitive case. A number of words have two prepositional forms, for example, "about the Cupboard" and "in the closet" - for the second case they speak of the local case. Also, some words may have an initial case when it comes to the place where the movement starts - for example, "Out of the Forest".
The words bull and bee are one-root. The fact is that in the works of Old Russian literature the word bee was written as "Bachela". The alternation of vowels ъ / s is explained by the origin of both sounds from the same Indo-European sound U. If we recall the dialectal verb bucha, which has the meanings "Roar, Buzz, Buzz" and etymologically related to the words bee, insect and bull, then it becomes clear what was the general meaning of these nouns - producing a specific sound.
In the title of Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace", the word peace is used as an antonym for war (pre-revolutionary "peace"), and not in the meaning of "surrounding world" (pre-revolutionary "peace.", and Tolstoy himself wrote the title of the novel in French as “La Guerre et la Paix.” However, due to misprints in different publications at different times, where the word was written as “Mir,” controversy about the true meaning of the title of the novel is still ongoing. …
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