In many world languages, in Russian in particular, there are words that are forgotten due to the fact that objects or phenomena designated by them have become irrelevant or have become obsolete. But to learn their meaning and learn how to use such outdated words in a speech will not be superfluous.
Lapotnik is
At first glance at the word "lapotnik" it becomes clear that its main meaning is associated with bast shoes:
- The master who weaves bast shoes.
- The one who sells bast shoes.
- The man who wears these bast shoes, that is, a peasant, a poor man.
- Uncultured, poorly educated, ignorant, backward person.
Morphological features
The word "Lapotnik" is a common nouns, animate masculine nouns and, therefore, refers to the second declension.
| Case / number | Question | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | Who! | Lapotnik went to the fair. | Lapotniki these days a rarity. |
| Genitive | Whom? | In this village there is not a single lapotnik. | Ask Laponnikov. |
| Dative | To whom? | Go to your lapotnik. | Give Lapotnikov. |
| Accusative | Whom? | I love my lapotnik. | I don’t see lapotnikov here. |
| Instrumental case | By whom? | The tourist was dissatisfied with the man of arms. | Don’t be friends with the lapotniki. |
| Prepositional | About whom? | What did you find in this lapotnik. | Tell us about lapotnikov. |
Examples of sentences with the word "lapotnik"
In the context, the meaning of this word will become more clear:
- In the village there lived a unique master-lapotnik, from whose hands real masterpieces came out.
- The family was in shock: the beloved daughter left her father’s house and ran away with some beggarly man.
- One lapotnik weaves bast shoes, the second sells, and the third wears.
- You are not an artist, but some kind of lapotnik.
- In every family there was a lapotnik: buying real shoes was an inadmissible luxury.
- Petruha was the best lapotnik in the entire volost, he would not have had a price if he hadn’t jammed vodka with buckets.
- Go away, I’m not going to be with such lapnikov.
- What a nasty woman, only the Lapotnik live with you.
- Lapotnik is a bast trader.
Now the meaning of the word is clear.