Often in everyday life, if you give someone advice, you can hear an appeal to yourself - "adviser." But who is this? How to find out what a person had in mind? This article will help you understand what this means.
Meaning of the word
An adviser is a person who gives advice. Often this word is used with a touch of irony, as if not taking it seriously. Use case: "You are definitely my best adviser."
Word formation
One of the most complex word-formation schemes is the suffix method, since suffixes are studied quite a bit. Even in separate articles devoted to this topic, there is no detailed information about their meanings. You can find out what significance the new suffix attaches to by comparing the semantics of the words formed with its help. So, “adviser” is a derivative of “advise” using the suffix -chik. He is paired. The suffixes -chik / -shchik, as well as -nik, denote a person, his type of activity, characteristic of a profession. Thus, the person whose job it is to give advice is the adviser.
Origin
The concept is relatively new. It entered the language only at the beginning of the 19th century. First appeared in the dictionary in 1825 as a neologism. An explanation was added to it that the “adviser” was formed in order to distinguish between fans giving advice from advisers with a state rank. At that time, the word "adviser" began to acquire a high, official meaning, denoting a public office.
It is noteworthy that the suffixes -chik / -shchik are quite common. But then why was the concept with him formed only at the beginning of the 19th century? Most likely, the fact is that the word "advise" from which it is formed requires another suffix for the formation of the word. Verbal forms with -move and motionless stress falling on the base, require the suffix -tel (that is, counselor) or -shchik (that is, counselor) for its formation with the meaning "protagonist". However, in the 1920s, there was a slight shift in grammatical tendencies in the formation of words using the suffix -chik.
Later, an even greater difference appeared between the concepts of “adviser” and “adviser”. The first to be called only people holding a high public office. For example, an embassy adviser, a titular adviser. This word has become synonymous with the word "consultant". They began to call the adviser a mockery, denoting the person giving bad advice. So, the first word appeared bookish, and the second - ironic. Therefore, an adviser is a word with a negative meaning.