At first glance, the word "bread" is very simple and understandable to a Russian person. For our people, bread is an integral part of nutrition. Where did this word come from? What other meanings does it have besides direct? And also consider synonyms and examples of the use of the word bread in speech and writing.
Etymology
This word is of Old Russian origin. "Bread" is related to the more ancient "abyss". And this in turn means flour diluted with water, no baking.
In the beginning, when they didn't think of baking anything yet, people just ate grains. Then they learned how to grind them, and they threw this flour into a cauldron with meat - it worked out well. But there was not always meat, so sometimes only flour was thrown. So it turned out some kind of "abyss", which they slurped.
Then they decided to dilute this abyss with a little water, and try to fry it on fire - it turned out to be cakes that looked like bread.
The lexical meaning of the word bread
What is bread, everyone knows. This is a food product that is baked from flour,to another, it is almost an insipid flour product. Bread is most often consumed with any food. The peculiarity of a Russian person is that he eats everything with bread. You can make a sandwich out of bread, you can just eat bread alone, or you can eat it with other food, such as soup.
But besides such a direct meaning, bread is understood in Russian in several other ways.
- Bread used in the plural as "bread" refers generally to all cereals that can be ground into flour and baked into bread.
- This word can be understood as generally in general all the food you need to survive. Daily bread.
- The value of earning money received.
However, this is not the case for all people living on earth. For some, there is no such thing as "bread for everything," which means the main food of a person in general. For example, for the Chinese, such a product is rice. And for the northern peoples of Russia - this is a fish. Even when they pray, read the prayer "Our Father", they say not "give us our daily bread today", but "daily fish". That is, bread in general for our people is the main daily food, which has acquired the meaning of livelihood in general.
Synonyms and examples of using the word in context
Let's consider a few examples of the usage of this concept:
- cake;
- matza;
- bun;
- loaf;
- cake;
- lavash;
- artos.
So, here are some sentences with different uses of the word bread:
- "What delicious bread Grandma baked."
- "He earned his living as best he could."
- "The bread came up too early this year."
This word is especially pleasant and close to the soul for a Russian person. Bread is not only a daily food, but is also recognized as something that you cannot live without.
