A chest is basically a box, while a chest is a large wooden box with a flip-top lid. For a long time, it has been used to store household items. Small boxes began to appear later. At first their sizes were as follows. They were less than two cubits long, one cubit high and one wide. Details about the fact that this is a casket will be described in the article.
Word in dictionary
There you can find two interpretations of the studied lexeme.
- The first is a small box with a lid, in which they store various things, mostly jewelry. As a rule, it is richly decorated.
- In the second case, the casket is just a small chest where various small items can be placed.
What is the origin of this lexeme?
Etymology
The word is formed from the noun "chest", which is rooted in one of the languages of the Scandinavian peoples, which was spoken by the ancient Swedes. Old Swedish has the noun larr, meaning"drawer", "chest". And in Swedish there is the word lår, the meaning of which is “chest”, “box”.
This is where the old Russian “chest” comes from, which also means “box”, “chest”. It is found in the Izbornik of Svyatoslav in 1076, one of the oldest surviving handwritten books of Ancient Russia. There was also an Izbornik of 1073. Both of these books were compiled by two scribes for Svyatoslav Yaroslavich, the Grand Duke. These are mainly philosophical notes, excerpts from the lives of the saints, from the Bible, moralizing.
It is interesting that the word "chest" is one of the few borrowed from the Swedes. Nevertheless, it is evidence that the Russians have deep historical ties with the Swedes. The Finnish language has the noun laari, which translates as "box". Perhaps it also comes from the Swedish language, or perhaps it was formed by borrowing from Russian.
Synonyms for the word "casket"
Among them are found such as:
- box;
- chest;
- box;
- tabernacle;
- box;
- casket;
- laying;
- ark;
- reliquary;
- head head;
- Doskanets;
- colorist;
- bead;
- bagulchik.
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Description
Now "casket" is an obsolete word, more often it is used in literary speech, in fairy tales, in historicalchronicles. Today, the “box” is more familiar to us. Such a box or box is not always, but often has the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped and is used to store jewelry in it. It also holds money, documents, and other small items that usually have a certain value.
Usually chests are locked. In the 16-17 centuries. to achieve greater security, caskets were made in which there were caches in the lid or under the false bottom. In the 19th century chests with a secret appear, they can only be opened by performing certain non-obvious actions or a series of complex manipulations. In the literature, you can find many examples that tell that compromising information on their enemies or rivals was often hidden in caskets.
Often these products are of great value. To give a beautiful appearance, they are covered with materials such as ivory, enamel, leather, precious metals (silver and gold). And also the caskets are decorated with precious stones: rubies, emeralds, sapphires. Stones can also be semi-precious (for example, corals, turquoise, carnelian). When decorating, various technologies are used, among which are engraving, inlay, cloisonné enamel, granulation, filigree.
Golden Casket
This is a whole network of jewelry stores located in Russia, in the Krasnodar Territory. It was founded in 1994. Immediately after the opening of the first store, a lot of customers were attracted in a short time, which became permanent. Today, this retail chain continues to develop successfully.
Under the sameThere is also an online jewelry store with the same name. There, customers can find a wide range of products in various designs at affordable prices. This store sells jewelry made in Yaroslavl.