9 pairs of words that are hard to believe in kinship

1. "Beginning" and "end"

Yes, these words go back to the same root. Look at the “start - start”, “start - start” pairs. Once upon a time, instead of "rank" there should have been "kin", and the sound "and" alternated with "o". That is, historically, “rank” and “con” alternate here. The root "kon" meant "border," and both the end and the beginning are the boundaries.

From here also come the Russian words "from time immemorial", "from time immemorial".

2. "Moon" and "bald"

These words go back to one ancient Indo-European root. Common Slavic * louksnā meant "brilliant, light". From the same root the words "ray" and "gloss" appeared. The ancient * lyksъ has the same stem, only with a different vowel, and literally "bald" translates as "brilliant". It's obvious: the lack of hair adds gloss.

3. "Eat" and "necklace"

"To eat" goes back to * gьrti, where "g" after softening became "zh". By the way, initially this rude word was neutral and meant "is". From the same basis, * gürdlo is formed, which gave rise to the "throat", "mouth" and "gut".

Now let's look at the "necklace". This is an ornament that wraps around the “throat” (“throat”), from which it is formed.

4. "Stench" and "currant"

Let's remember a couple of words "city - city", "gold - gold", "gate - gate" and the like. Here we see full agreement ("-oro-"), which is characteristic of the Russian language, and incompleteness ("-ra-"), which we inherited from Church Slavonic. Some words with incomplete accord have been preserved as inherent in high style, for example, those listed above. And some have supplanted the full-voiced Russian counterparts. These include the word "stench".

Once upon a time there was a word "currant" meaning "stench". Now the majority are familiar only with the incomplete version of it. But it is the noun with "-oro-" that sheds light on the origin of the name of the currant berry. Apparently, our ancestors did not like its pungent smell.

5. "Wait" and "weather"

The word "weather" goes back to the stem "year". The original meaning is "good weather", therefore there is also "bad weather". It was only later that any state of the atmosphere began to be called "weather".

But what about the word "wait"? Let us recall the dialectal synonym "to go". Both verbs go back to * güdati, which has the same historical root as year. It turns out that "weather" and "wait" are relatives.

6. "Bee" and "Bull"

The name of the insect was once such - "bchela". But then the reduced "b" dropped out, and the "b" was stunned and became "p". This word is formed from the same basis as "buchat" - "buzz, buzz".

The mono-root onomatopoeic verb gave the name to the bull. He makes a sound like "boo", so he was called a bull.

7. "Lesson" and "speech"

"Lesson" is derived from * urekti ("to say"). Historically, "u" here is a prefix. And at the root "-rock-" there are two alternations at once. The first is "o / e": "lesson" - "river" ("I say"). The second - "k / h": "river" - "speech".

Yes, the word "speech" is derived from the non-prescriptive * rekti ("to speak"). Almost from the same word as "lesson".

8. "Palm" and "valley"

Remember the outdated "hand" that was found in poetry? This is an incomplete version of the word "dolon". This is what the palm was once called. Common Slavic * doln is formed from the same basis as the words "dol" ("bottom") and "valley". A valley is a depression, a lowland, that is, somewhere below. And the literal original meaning of the word "palm" is "the underside" (of the hand).

9. "Child" and "Slave"

In the XII century there was a word "robenok", in which over time "o" turned into "e". It is a diminutive for "shy", which goes back to * orbę.

The noun "slave" is also formed from the same root * orbъ. It originally meant "orphan." Apparently, it was hard for the orphans, because over time the word acquired a new meaning - "slave", "forced laborer", and later - the familiar "slave".