"You are talking some kind of rubbish" - such a phrase can sometimes be heard by a person in response to some statements that are incomprehensible to other people. Of course, there are many other synonyms for this word, for example, nonsense, nonsense, nonsense, but the word "rubbish" is still used by many. If you're curious about its origins, then just keep reading!
Meanings of the word "rubbish"
It turns out that rubbish is not only a synonym for words like nonsense, nonsense. In addition, there is another definition. According to him, rubbish is small things of poor quality, gathered together. For example, scraps, fragments, scraps, etc.
The history of the appearance and origin of the word "rubbish"
The first use in literary speech dates back to the 40s of the last century. This word (rubbish) was mentioned by Gogol in his poem "Dead Souls", after which it spread further in literature. However, it is clear that it was taken by Gogol from colloquial speech. And here its origin is already unclear.
One ofThe most common version in etymology says that the word "rubbish" appeared during the Mongol-Tatar invasion as a result of imitation of Tatar speech incomprehensible to Russian-speaking people.
It is interesting that there are different variants of this word in dialects of the Russian language, for example, biliberda, keriberda, kuliberda. There are other versions of the origin of the word rubbish. It is quite possible that it was formed using a suffixal way from the verb to whitewash, which is close in meaning to the verb to chat.
In this case, in the word "belebenda" (written "and" instead of "e" according to pronunciation norms), the sounds [n] and [d] were dissimilar with the letter "n" changing into the letter "p" (for example, a similar phenomenon occurred during the formation of the word "stingy" from the original "stingy"), after which it changed into the familiar word "rubbish".
Another version: it may be that "rubbish" is a word that was formed according to the principle of the Turkic languages (this is a family of languages related to the Altaic macrofamily of languages that are widespread in Eastern Europe and Asia). Some etymologists cannot understand at all where this word takes its roots from, they call it etymologically dark.
Inconsistencies in versions
Thus, it is impossible to say for sure where this word came from, but now it is quite popular both in everyday and in literary speech. We hope that after this article you remember what it is- rubbish.
