Where words come from. A book about well-known words, but with secrets
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In the science fiction world of words, a huge number of relatives are both distant and close, almost blood brothers and sisters. Who would have thought that the words “jacket” and “heel” have a common origin? As well as the “bull” and “bee”, “cabbage” and “hat” ... There are many similar examples in the book of Vitaly Babenko. They understand it - and they are explained - hundreds of words, and each head is a small short story, a small story, with its own plot and, as a rule, an unexpected ending. This book is about how words are born, develop, intertwine, collide, diverge, merge again, hide behind each other and in each other, in order to suddenly be born again - with new meanings and new meanings. How they come from different languages to live together, creating an amazing diversity of our magnificent, magical, virtuoso Russian language