Humno - what is it? Perhaps today, not every person can answer this question. After all, this word has practically disappeared from our everyday life. And it was used earlier, mainly in agriculture. We will analyze in detail that this is a threshing floor in the article.
What does the dictionary say?
The following is written in dictionaries about the fact that this is a barn.
Firstly, this agricultural term refers to a piece of land that was cleared in peasant farms in order to stack stacks of bread on it, thresh it and process grain.
Example: “Outside the yard there were various outbuildings such as barns, stables, livestock sheds, sheds for agricultural machines, dryers, barns. And then there was a threshing floor, which was cluttered with shocks and swaths of straw.”
Secondly, this is a room designed for storing and processing compressed bread.
Example: “The buildings located in the manor’s yard included stables, baths, a threshing floor, other outbuildings, as well as outbuildings of a large stonehouse that had a semicircular gable.”
For a better understanding of the meaning of "threshing floor", consider its synonyms and origin.
Synonyms
These include the following words:
- building;
- room;
- wine;
- barn;
- riga;
- shed;
- platform;
- current;
- current;
- granary;
- clunya;
- bean goose;
- humanitarian
Next, let's move on to the origin of the word under study.
Etymology
This word refers to common Slavic and has such variants as:
- "goum" in Old Church Slavonic;
- "gumno" - in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and the dialect word "shit" in the same languages;
- gumno - in Slovenian, Polish, Lower Sorbian;
- huno – in Upper Lusatian;
- humno - in Slovenian, Czech, Slovak.
There are two versions of its origin:
- One of them says that the word was formed from two parts - gu and mno. The first part of gu is identical to “gov” (part of the word “beef”, which now means “cattle meat”, but earlier simply meant “cattle” and comes from the Old Russian “govado”). Its etymologists compare it with the Indian word gaus and the Greek bus, meaning "ox, ox". The second part mno comes from mnti - "knead". Together, both of these parts literally mean "a place where bread is crushed (that is, threshed) using cattle."
- Another version reports that the word owes its origin tothe verb gubiti, meaning "to destroy", from which gubno is derived. In this case, the original meaning of the word is interpreted as “a place where bread was threshed, previously cleared of vegetation (burnt out).”
In conclusion of considering the fact that this is a threshing floor, we suggest that you learn more about this place.
Then and now
The threshing floor arose in Russia in ancient times, but today no one can say exactly when. Previously, the threshing floor was a compacted land plot, which was often fenced. In peasant farms, unthreshed rye was formed on it, and its threshing was carried out, as well as grain winnowing. Sometimes sheds were arranged on the threshing floor, a barn was placed - a building designed for drying sheaves before threshing.
That part of the threshing floor, where bread is threshed, grain is cleaned and sorted, is called "tok". But for threshing, a separate shed made of wood was often erected, which was called "klunya". And also the threshing floor could be a single structure for all the listed purposes. It was also built from wood.
We althy or medium-sized farms had their own threshing floors, while those that were poorer had one for two or three yards. If the farm was large, then a special person was appointed to look after the threshing floor, who was called a bean, bean or bean.
Today, the threshing floor is a platform on which there are machines and equipment with which grain crops are threshed, such as rye, barley,wheat, oats. As well as seed, which include hemp, flax, peas.