LETTER HER
http://vk.com/feed?w=wall-42855938_237511In the Old Russian alphabet, the letter X was called "Her". From her originated the words "to fuck", "to piss" in the meaning of "cross out something on paper with a cross." At first, these words were used by schoolchildren when they crossed out mistakes, then it turned into professional and business, clerical jargon. Gradually “to lose” expanded its meaning and turned into “liquidate”, “lose”, “spoil”.
In Russian classical literature, there are many examples of the use of this verb.
In Turgenev's story "Clara Milich":
"Finally, he got tired of it all - and he decided, as they say," to take over "and bury the whole story, since it undoubtedly interfered with his studies and disturbed his peace."
In Leskov's essay "In Moscow":
"What a pig, however, this Rozanov: he, too, must certainly be taken away."
A. Tolstoy in Don Juan (in the speech of Satan):
The trouble is to deny everything! You have to believe in something else,
Wouldn't have had to, damn it
I have to give up myself!
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X, x(Russian name: Ha; in abbreviations sometimes heh: hebe) - the letter of all Slavic Cyrillic alphabets(22nd in Bulgarian, 23rd in Russian, 24th in Belarusian, 26th in Serbian and Ukrainian, 27th in Macedonian); it is also used in the scripts of some non-Slavic peoples. In the Old and Church Slavonic alphabets, it bears the name "хръ", the meaning of which is not clear: it is difficult to consider it, as is often done, associated with the word "cherubim" (the latter did not contain yat, although as a phonetic adaptation of soft back-lingual yats it could sometimes appear in borrowings, for example, known spellings like Gurman); another version refers to Greek words like χαι̃ρε [хе́рэ](rejoice) or χείρ [hir](hand). In Cyrillic it is usually considered the 23rd in order and looks like; in glagolitic by the count of 24, has the form. In both alphabets, the numerical value is 600.
Origin
The origin of the Cyrillic letter (and the verbal arachnid) is the Greek letter chi (Χ, χ); the main verb form of an obscure origin (usually also raised to the Greek "chi", but at the same time the complete asymmetry of the result is incomprehensible; there is also a version with a modified Latin h).
In ancient times, there was also a second glagolic tracing, the so-called "arachnid" - in the form of a circle with four hooks in the corners: Ⱒ ... It is found in monuments 4 times: 1 time in the Assemanian Gospel and 3 times in the Sinai Psalter. In all cases, the sign conveyed the first letter in the word "hlm" (hill). According to the "Alphabet Prayer" by Konstantin Preslavsky and the Munich Abesedarium, "arachnid x" - Ⱒ - was included in the Glagolic alphabet as a separate (33rd in a row) letter.
Cyrillic letter shape X had no noticeable options, except that in cursive writing it could be depicted in one stroke without taking the pen off the paper, which usually looked like a handwritten α ... With the introduction of the civil font, the outline of the letter X identified with the form of the Latin letter "X".
Pronunciation
In modern Russian, the letter X denotes a voiceless velar fricative consonant: hard [x] or soft (softened before e and and; combinations with other softening vowels and with b rare and found only in borrowings: Huizinga, Hübner, Pyhäjärvi, Houston). Practically incompatible with s: this only happens in borrowing ( Arkhyz). Combinations with eh also rare: in borrowings, in this case, fluctuations in spelling are common eh/e: happening / happening, hash / hash, taekwondo / taekwondo etc., and in compound words between x and eh there is a syllable section: two-story, super-energetic.
In other Slavic languages, soft pronunciation is less common than in Russian.
Serbian pronunciation of the letter X weakened to [h] and even to the complete disappearance of the sound, in connection with which Vuk Karadzic initially did not include this letter at all in the reformed Serbian alphabet, which greatly changed the appearance of many words: du (x) ovnik, patriar (x), (X) oration, (x) Rishkanism, (X) Rvatska.
Mokshan language
In the Mokshan language, it denotes the sound [x], and is also used in double letters LH =, PX =, YX = [ç] to stun the sonorants.
Chechen language
In Chechen grammar, the letter X is a Gaitar (indicator) khottalurg dozhara (real case).
Figurative meanings of the name "dick"
- Due to the shape of the letter X Its name dick was often used to mean something cruciform: Dahl mentions "playing heriki-oniki" (tic-tac-toe) and the expression "dick legs" as the opposite of "wheel legs." From here comes the word lose(initially - cross it out crosswise; compare with Leskov: Vladyka struck out the Consistor's decision to appoint an investigation).
- Being the first letter of an obscene word, the word dick since the 19th century has been actively used as its euphemism. As a result, by the 1990s, in the USSR, the word "dick" and its derivatives (for example, "to give up") began to be perceived by many as taboo, since the original names of Cyrillic letters were forgotten in the bulk of the population. This fact left an imprint on the use of the word "dick" in the post-Soviet era, despite the change in attitudes towards obscene vocabulary. [ source not specified 1586 days]
Code table
Encoding Case Decimal16-rich code
Octal code
code Binary code
| Unicode | Uppercase | 1061 | 0425 | 002045 | 00000100 00100101 |
| Lowercase | 1093 | 0445 | 002105 | 00000100 01000101 | |
| ISO 8859-5 | Uppercase | 197 | C5 | 305 | 11000101 |
| Lowercase | 229 | E5 | 345 | 11100101 | |
| KOI 8 | Uppercase | 232 | E8 | 350 | 11101000 |
| Lowercase | 200 | C8 | 308 | 11001000 | |
| Windows 1251 | Uppercase | 213 | D5 | 325 | 11010101 |
| Lowercase | 245 | F5 | 365 | 11110101 |
In HTML, an uppercase letter: X can be written as X or X, and the lowercase x- like x or x.
Dick
There is an article in Wiktionary "dick"- Dick- the name of the letter "ha" in the Old and Church Slavonic alphabets.
- Dick- a common in Russian euphemism for the obscene word "dick".
- Ger is the Spanish name for the municipality of Gers in Catalonia.
- Her, Ronnie (born 1981) - Swiss double fighter, participant of three Olympic Games.
- Rolf de Heer (born May 4, 1951) is an Australian filmmaker of Dutch descent.
Do you know the meaning of the letter "Her" in the Church Slavonic alphabet?
In terms of visibility, this question is in second place. And no one gave the right answer.Maybe there are experts now? - 5 years ago
Alex Zaitsekrad
As far as I know, "dick" in Church Slavonic meant "cross". They are both the letter X and the cross and are visually similar, so there is nothing surprising in this. I am more afraid of how the meaning of such words is transformed into a modern one ...
If you take a picture showing the alphabet, you will notice that the letters
"Her", "Omega", "Tsi" and "Worm" stand apart from the rest, being in the so-called Divine part of the alphabet. In addition, the letters "Her" and "Omega" are additionally highlighted and placed in a circle in the very center. Perhaps this is done in order to show that the meaning of these letters must be considered inseparably. Taking into account that, probably, the letter "Her" was taken from the Greek alphabet, in which it denotes the Universe, and its numerical value 600 corresponds to the word "space", and the letter "Omega" denotes the word "faith", we can assume that combined together, they can mean "Faith in God (as the beginning of everything)".
Another possible meaning of the letter "Omega" is end, final and doom. Then, perhaps for the letter "Her" the meaning is the beginning (which does not exclude the possibility that it may have the meaning "God"). And enclosed in a circle, they symbolize the Beginning and the End - everything that exists.
There is a translation of such a sentence:
Rtsy word is firm - uk furet her.
Use your word with conviction. Knowledge is a gift from God!
Again we have the meaning of the letter "Her" - God.
It turns out that most likely the meaning of the letter "Her" is God (or the beginning of everything, the Cosmos, the Universe).
Vissarion
Her - means god, and specifically the sun god Khors (Hora, Khrs, Khrs).
“Khors is the god of the solar disk, the god of the world order associated with the course of the sun. Therefore, any solstice was considered the days of Khors, for example, summer - June 21 to 25 (Kupala), autumn - September 21-23 (Maly Oat, Tausen, Autumn Khoros). The Horse symbol is historically undefined. But, in neo-paganism, it is a cross in a circle. " http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/c/5/87/605/87605356_H.jpg
Its counterparts Horus (Chorus, egypt. Hr - Heru); Thracian Gero (Hero), one of whose epithets was "Savior"; Greek Hercules (Latin Hercules), the god of the Greek horoscope, who performed one feat in each sign of the zodiac.
Irina vasilievna
I can say that at the direction of Berneker, who cites the oral communication of Abicht, the name of the Church Slavonic letter X- “kher” is a conditional abbreviation, or rather: the first sound part of the word cherubim or cherub (Greek χερουβίμ; E. Verneker. B. I, s. 387) Obviously, it was with this word (in its writing and sounding) that the meaning of the letter X was illustrated - when teaching the Church Slavonic alphabet. It is from this word dick that the verb herit is derived (cf. dick". Wed zakher in the play by A. N. Ostrovsky "Heart is not a stone": "Take a piece of paper! ... Zakher, zakher all!"
Ad libitum
I opened my textbook of the Old Church Slavonic language, it says the following: in
Glagolitic is a sign that I cannot draw here, which denotes a letter, then the name of this letter - this is the word хъръ, again I cannot write in Old Church Slavonic, since in this word the second letter is spelled somewhat differently than just b, higher.
Hence, it is simply the name of a letter in the Glagolitic alphabet.
I found the alphabet on the Internet, and so it says there that this word means universal balance, consistency, harmony. But nevertheless, this is the name of a letter in the Glagolitic alphabet, like az, beeches, lead, and so on.
Elena-kh
I first met the letter "dick" in Pushkin's book. Then he wrote that someone had spread his legs, and it looked like the letter "dick".
Later, another writer, Dostoevsky, wrote about this letter.
Purely in linguistic terms, the meaning of this letter is: it's just the letter "x".
And if you delve into figurative meanings, then "dick" means 2 lines crosswise, nothing, them ... :) Hence the swear word arose.
Caroline
This letter consists of the syllable KE or XE (derived from the Greek letter "chi", read as "xi") and the syllable Pb. As a result, the sign is obtained, which in the Glagolitic alphabet denotes the letter X. This was then tied to the "Cherubim"
Bestfriend
In the dictionary of Max Vasmer, in addition to the assumption that the name of the letter is an abbreviation for the word "cherub", another meaning is proposed - "hello to you", it is assumed that this name of the letter came from the Greek language.
Olegator
There is a funny word in the Russian language, which, being absolutely literary, is perceived by some people as indecent and almost obscene. This is the word "take away". It comes from the name of the letter "X" (dick) of the Church Slavonic alphabet. They did not immediately begin to write this letter as simplified as it is now, therefore, its association with the cross and with strikethrough did not immediately arise (not earlier than from the 13-14 centuries). In the Middle Ages, this word in the meaning of "cross out" with shades of "destroy" or "mark" spread first in school, then in business and office language. In "Cathedrals" Leskov's Deacon Achilles says: "Vladyka's decision of the consistors about the appointment of the investigation about the sermon with a blue dick was crossed out and everyone was quietly reassured that they had appointed Father Savely to a clerical position at the bishop's house." Since the 17th century, the meaning of "destroy", "exclude from what is written" has been strengthened. The word becomes very popular and has many forms that have not come down to us. They said: shit, cheat, cheat, cheat and even cheat !. In the 19th century, it is actively used in literature. For example, in Turgenev's story "Klara Milich": "... he got tired of everything - and he decided ... to put away this whole story ...". In Leskov's essay "In Moscow": "What a pig, however, this Rozanov: he, too, will certainly have to be thrown away." And especially delicious in Ostrovsky's play "Heart is not a stone": "Take a piece of paper! ... Zakher, take it all!"
But that's not the fun part. The most interesting thing is the origin of the name of the letter "dick" itself. This word was an abbreviation of the word "cherub".
Vagabundo
In the Old Russian alphabet, the letter X was called "dick". This is where the word "bastard" came from, meaning "to cross out something on paper with a cross." And only later this word acquired its modern meaning: “spoil”, “lose”. In general, dick denotes any oblique cross, similar in outline to the letter X.
Well, here's another: X, dick - the twenty-second letter
in the old Russian alphabet;
"Herom legs" means crooked legs;
“To forget” - to cross out what is written.
When and under what circumstances did the letter "dick" become a curse?
Lyudmila shepeleva
I agree with Andrey.
"" to forget "means to cross out a cross on a cross, and" dick "means a CROSS! But this was not always a contradiction: in Christian philosophical symbolism, the cross on which Christ was crucified was viewed not as an instrument of shameful execution, but as a triumph of life over death. Thus, the word "dick", like "another word of three letters ", were originally used in Russia to denote the word" cross. "It should also be noted that the letter" x "was depicted in the Old Russian language in the form of two crossed lines is not at all accidental - Christ, Christianity, Christians, temple, dick (cross). the opinion that the famous turnover: "Fuck you all ...! "the defenders of Slavic paganism came up with, they shouted this phrase, cursing at the Christians who came to spread their faith." Fuck you! "or" Fuck you ...! "- originally meant a curse:" let you be crucified, as well as your God! "(literally:" Step on the cross! ") Then the religious meaning of these words was lost, because with the victory of Orthodoxy in Russia, the term" cross "ceased to have a vulgar, negative meaning for the people.
Andrey kotousov
Her is the name of the Cyrillic letter X. Initially, “to bash” or “lay dick” meant roughly crossing someone's text cross-on-cross. And then the word migrated to the category of abusive, meaning to express gross disrespect.
... on the topic ... The letter was called "dick" from the word "cherub" (comment)
http://blogs.mail.ru/mail/vznakprotesta/10E6AF2598BA988A.htmlTechnomad (teh_nomad) writes in en_antireligion - http://ru-antireligion.livejournal.com/8035615.html
2012-05-14
Orthodox can be safely sent to the dick.
For it is canonical. Proof from dirty.ru
Often, reading comments, I come across phrases like "I put it on ..." or "I put it on it ...", and, as a rule, it is not indicated what exactly the author put. Only sometimes, especially frank, they clarify: "I put a dick on you" (sometimes rougher). My imagination always drew me extraordinary acrobatic sketches, which were performed by the author of this statement; and, all the same, I had a poor idea of the process itself :) I suddenly became interested in where this expression came from - and this is what it turned out:
It turns out that this expression is very weakly connected with our physiology (thank God), and the ordinary letter "X" is to blame for everything. The thing is that in the Old Church Slavonic language this letter was called "kher" and, because of its shape, it was used to designate everything more or less cruciform. There was even such an expression "dick legs". So, the expressions "dick to cross out" or "dick to impose" meant just "put a cross", "cross out". The word “lose” had the same meaning (and not “lose”, as I always thought).
In light of all of the above, now the phrase "fuck you" sounds like a blessing, sorry ...
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From the site - wordhist.narod.ru -
HISTORY OF WORDS
V. V. VINOGRADOV
FUCK
Many words derived from Church Slavonic stems, or generally Church Slavonic morphological elements, are structurally and semantically so far removed from them that a semantic connection can only be restored by etymological research. Sometimes functional shifts in the meaning of words make themselves felt here. The functional semantics of a word include those processes of changing the meanings of words that are not caused by a shift in phraseological contexts of their use, not by internal shifts in the semantic structure of the language, but by rethinking or a new functional relationship of the objects themselves, denoted by words, a new nominative use of words, due to the newly discovered connection of things ... In this functional aspect, for example, it is interesting to follow the expansion and change in the meanings of such words that arose as symbols of the letters of the Slavic alphabet.
At the direction of Bernecker, citing the oral communication of Abikht, the name of the Church Slavonic letter X- “kher” is a conditional abbreviation, or rather: the first sound part of the word cherubim or cherub (Greek χερουβίμ; E. Verneker. B. I, s. 387). , it was with this word (in its writing and sounding) that the meaning of the letter X was illustrated - when teaching the Church Slavonic alphabet. It is from this word dick that the verb dick is derived (compare to chuck, ditch, ditch) - `to cross out like the letter dick '. Wed zakher in the play by A. N. Ostrovsky "Heart is not a stone": "Take a piece of paper! ... Zakher, zakher all!" (d. 1, manifest. 4).
The verb herit was formed in the school language and then in the professional-business, clerical language. It represents an aboriginal formation (from the word dick). Her is the name of the letter x in the Church Slavonic alphabet 311. In the dictionary of 1847, the word хhр was defined as “the name of one of the aspirated letters of the Russian alphabet, in the Slavic alphabet 24, and in the Russian 22; in the church account, X means 600 ”(words 1867-1868, 4, p. 874). But already in medieval Russian (however, hardly earlier than the XIII-XIV centuries), the word kher acquired the meaning conventional sign in the form of a cross. Wed in a land survey of the beginning of the 16th century: “and on a stump there are two dicks on a cross” ”“ ”(Obnorsky, p. 35). This is where the verb herit (cf. zakherit, zakherit) arises with the meaning: “to destroy or mark something ... with the image of a cross or a dick, to cross out, to cross out” (see words 1867-1868, 4, p. 874). Wed in the "Cathedrals" by NS Leskov (in the speech of Deacon Achilles): "... Vladyka's decision of the Consistor's office on the appointment of an investigation about the sermon with a blue dick was crossed out and everyone was quietly reassured by the fact that they had appointed Father Savely to a clerical position at the bishop's house." (1957, 4, pp. 239-240) It is clear that the "Materials" of the Sreznev verb hhriti is not indicated.
Apparently, as clerical and business words, the verbs to trash and to restrain were widely circulated in the Russian language of the 17th-18th centuries. Wed in the dictionaries of the Russian Academy: “Fuck - blot out, exclude what is written. Fuck whose name is on the list ”(part 5, p. 103). But these expressions were not included in the average style of fiction.
From the meaning `to cross out - to cross out, mark with a cross like the letter X" - in the verb herit - (in the form of the owl. This expansion of the scope of the meaning of the word herit - to forget it was outlined in the colloquial official, serving dialect - a long time ago - no later than the 18th century But this shade of meaning was especially pronounced in Russian literary language from 30-40 years. XIX century., When the word was allowed to be abandoned in the styles of fiction and narrative literature. In I. S. Turgenev's story “Clara Milich”: “Finally, he got tired of it all - and he decided, as they say, to“ take over ”and bury the whole story, since it undoubtedly interfered with his studies and disturbed his peace "(Ch. 8). In NS Leskov's essay "In Moscow": "What a pig, however, this Rozanov: he, too, will certainly have to be taken away."
A. Tolstoy in Don Juan (in the speech of Satan):
The trouble is to deny everything! You have to believe in something else,
Wouldn't have to, damn it,
I have to give up myself!
The note has not been previously published. The archive has preserved typescript with copyright correction. Reprinted from typescript with a number of necessary clarifications and corrections.
In the article "Word formation in its relation to grammar and lexicology (based on the material of Russian and related languages)" V.V. Vinogradov writes: "The formation of the letter her from cherubim is especially interesting for us. In the alphabet prayer: "Kher-ovsku mi thought and um give" "and further:" It is well known that in the Russian language the verb to lose was derived from the name of the letter xer "(Selected tr .: Research on Russian grammar, p. 220) ... In "Sketches on the history of Russian. lit. language. " the list of common words in Derzhavin's poems is quoted by Groth: “... cf. colloquial words in the language of Derzhavin: rostobars, shlendat, perekheret, taz, tricks, sewing, din, gamit, dutik, (all dutik, all red-cheeked, vol. 2, p. 611), dabble, commotion (and beautiful nymphs, . 2, p. 611), to nasolu (laughing at me the girls nasolu, vol. 2, p. 256), inadvertently, to embarrass (I am humbled, vol. 2, p. 456), to punch (he kicked the hordes violently, " On the capture of Ishmael “, stanza 22), steer (sterebiliko lion, vol. 2, p. 181), snatch, chobot (choboto chobot,“ To an art lover, ”stanza 12) and many others. etc.) ”(Essays, p. 141). - V.P.
311 Yagich I.V. Reasoning of the Yugoslavian and Russian antiquity about the Church Slavonic language // Research on the Russian language, vol. 1, St. Petersburg, 1888, p. 606.
Do you know the origin and meaning of the words "crap", "crap", "crap"?
Imp # 13
CRAZY - 1. female of the genus of perennial grasses of the cruciferous family (see. HREN). H. ordinary - unlike the male, it does not contain vitamin C in the roots, essential oils and phytoncides, and therefore as hot seasoning does not apply. A dangerous weed. Outwardly, it is an extremely massive root with BOTH (see), which has a huge weight (Hence: UNSTIHRANE - that is, to do something heavy and ungrateful). H. Japanese - the same as City Japanese, Japanese Umbrella, Japanese Crocodile, Japanese Stump, etc. It is pronounced with the obligatory doubling of the sound "p". For example: Japanese kimono! 2. The spirit of death in the legends of the JAPANESE ELECTRIC UNION. The phenomenon of H. foreshadows an extremely early death from electric shock. As a rule, the electrician only has time to cry out: "What the hell ?!" (And given the relatively long duration of the corresponding Japanese phrase - Nanigoto sukoshi wasabi-tyan? !!! - and it does not have time). And then he falls dead (hence the expression - Ohrenet - magaru wasabi). An electrician who manages to resist this exclamation by an effort of will has a chance to stay alive and be buried alive, which is considered a great honor among electricians, who in Japan for the most part come from Samurai (see).
DICK
Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language V. Dahl
HER HER, letter, see x at the beginning. Game of heriki, crosses, onics. Ditch the letter, ditch it, (check it out), cross it or blot it out, cross it out. -sya, they suffer. He's got dick legs, opposite floor. wheel.
fuck [blot out, cross out, cross (Dahl)] see cross out, exclude
POHE "RIT, Ryu, Rish, Sov. (To fuck), that (colloquial fam.).
Cross out, cross out. || transfer Destroy, liquidate. He decided, as they say, to "take over" and bury this story. Turgenev. [Derived from the old name of the letter x - "dick", since two crossing lines were drawn along the crossed out text.]
Cat eyes
XEP, letter, see x at the beginning. The game of heriki, crosses, onics. Ditch the letter, ditch it, (check it out), cross it or blot it out, cross it out. -sya, they suffer. He's got dick legs, opposite floor. wheel.
HERIT, see dick.
.. this is the only thing that was found in Dahl's dictionary ..
The letter X, x in Russian is called "ha" (sometimes in abbreviations - he: hebe); available in all Cyrillic Slavic alphabets (in Bulgarian - 22nd, in Russian - 23rd, 24th in Belarusian, in Ukrainian and Serbian - 26th, in Macedonian - 27th); it also exists in the scripts of a number of non-Slavic peoples.
In the Church and Old Church Slavonic alphabets, it is called "хѣръ", the meaning of which is not clear: it is difficult to assume, as it is often done, that it is associated with the word "cherubim" -taki could sometimes appear in borrowed words, for example, a number of spellings are known, like Gurman); the second version refers to Greek words like χείρ (hand) or χαι̃ρε (rejoice). Usually in Cyrillic it is considered in order of the 23rd and has the form; in glagolitic the 24th in a row, looks like.
In both alphabets, it corresponds to the number 600.
Cyrillic and verbal spider-like letters originate from the Greek Χ, χ (chi); the basic verb form has an obscure origin (usually it is also raised to the Greek "chi", only in this case the complete asymmetry of the result is not clear; there is also a version with a modified Latin h).
In antiquity, there was also the 2nd type of the glagolic outline, the so-called. "Spider-like" - they drew a circle with 4 hooks at the corners. This form comes across 4 times in monuments: in the Sinai Psalter - 3 times and in the Assemanian Gospel - 1 time. In all 4 cases, the symbol transmitted the 1st letter of the word "hlm". According to the Munich Abesedarium and the "Alphabet Prayer" by K. Preslavsky, the "spider" x in the Glagolic alphabet was a separate letter (33rd in count).
The shape of the Cyrillic letter X did not vary significantly, except that cursive writing could be written with one, continuous stroke of the pen, which usually looked like a handwritten α. After the introduction of the civilian font, the spelling of the letter X was associated with the "X" - the form of the Latin letter.
The letter X of the modern Russian language means a voiceless consonant velar fricative sound: [x] - hard or - soft (softened before and and e; combinations with ь and other softening vowels are rare and come across only in borrowings: Hübner, Huizinga, Houston, Pyhäjärvi) ... S s is almost never combined: it happens only in borrowings (Arkhyz). S e combinations are also rare: for borrowings, variations in writing e / e are common: happening / happening, hash / hash, taekwondo / taekwondo, etc.
Less often than in Russian, there is a soft sound in other Slavic languages.
The Serbian pronunciation of the sound X is weakened to [h] and even up to the complete disappearance of the sound, therefore initially Vuk Karadzic did not include this letter at all in the reformed Serbian alphabet, which greatly changed many words: (X) oraciјe, du (x) ovnik, ( x) Rishkanism, patriar (x), (X) Rvatska.
Types of figurative meanings of the name "dick"
The specificity of the shape of the letter X contributed to the fact that its name dick was often used to denote something cruciform: Dahl mentions the game "in heriki-oniki" (ie, tic-tac-toe) and the phrase "dick legs" (opposed - "Legs with a wheel"). From the same considerations, the word `` ditch '' stems from (initially - cross it out crosswise; in Leskov, for example: Vladyka crossed out the consistor's decision on the appointment of an investigation with a dick).
As the 1st letter of the word x ... th, from the 19th century. dick began to be actively used as its ancient euphemism. So, in the USSR, by the beginning of the 1990s, the word "dick" and its derivatives (eg, "cheat") by many began to be perceived as taboo, since the original names of the Cyrillic letters were, for the most part, forgotten by the population. This fact left its mark on the use of the word "dick" in the post-Soviet period, although the attitude towards obscene vocabulary has changed.
At school I had a wonderful Russian language teacher. Once in class, she uttered the word "to lose". Then she explained to the whole class that there was nothing obscene in this word. Word "Cheat" comes from the name of the Cyrillic letter " dick", Which looks like double strikethrough. Therefore, "to forget" means to "cross out".
By the way, it is believed that the name of the letter dick comes from the word "cherub". There was even a textbook of the Russian language, in which the word "to hide" is found. This is "Russian spelling" by academician Yakov Karlovich Grot, published in 1894.
The letter dick itself comes from the Greek letter hee... Due to some disagreement in ancient Greek, the same letter was sometimes read as xi... Now it is a Latin letter X... That is, our letter Ha and latin letter X were once one letter.
In some languages with the Latin alphabet, the letter X it still reads [x] - for example, in Spanish. Because of this, we get ambiguous words. Mexico City and Texas... This letter is also read, for example, in Azerbaijani (new Latin writing). In other languages, it is read at random (in English it is often like [z], in French at the end it is not read at all, in the transcription of Chinese it conveys a cunning letter, similar to [s], and so on). Many languages do not use it at all - for example, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Esperanto.
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“The letter her itself comes from the Greek letter chi. Due to some differences in ancient Greek, the same letter was sometimes read as xi. "
So these are two different letters, chi and xi? And is there both in the Greek alphabet?
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It is quite understandable why "dick" is not very "decent": if now they say "go to x ...", then they used to say (since the letter x was called dick) "go to dick ...", so it became an ephemism.
