Today we will reveal in detail the meaning of the word “goal”.
Origin of the word
Some sources report that the noun came from the adjective "naked." Both are in the same semantic series and have a common root “goal”.
According to A.N. Chudinov, the noun came from the English goal, which in translation means "goal, destination."
The synonyms for the word are “hunger”, “fabric”, “barefoot”, “poor”, “nakedness”.
Others believe that the word is associated with the Baltic-speaking tribe "Kolyad", which settled on the banks of the Protva River in the XII century, next to the Krivichi. According to chronicles, the tribe lived in the area until about the 15th century. There is an opinion that the trout are emigrants from East Prussia.
Outdated word meanings.
The word itself is considered not to be used in modern speech and is mentioned in the Dictionary of difficult and outdated words of the Russian language. It has the following meanings. Goal is a Chinese cloth, very similar to cam. Kamka is called semi-silk material, patterned, expensive. Material was used for sewing clothes from women's wardrobe. Since the fabric was very expensive, only women of a noble family could afford it. Used it for a long time, back in the days of the Chinese emperors.
In this category can be attributed another value. Gol is a deserted place in which there are no buildings and no vegetation. But here the word is used in a figurative sense.
If you look for information on this topic, you can come across such an opinion that the goal is the name of the haulers who dragged at the expense of the ship’s own forces. They lowered the earned money in taverns. From here came the expression "kabat's goal." This idiom refers to descended people who spent money on booze.
According to the dictionary of D.N.Ushakov, gol are beggars and poor. But even though such people were very poor, they were considered very cunning and wise. After all, they had to constantly look for a way out of their situation, to think how to make money. The poor did any work. From here came the expression "erratic goal."
The meaning of the expressions "erratic" and "invented fiction"
Looser - these are very poor and poor people. Rolling, because the poor, having nothing of their own, were forced to move from place to place in search of work, food and housing.
Goal for invention is cunning. It was said above that poor people had to dodge, go to tricks in order to survive. This phraseological unit is closely connected with this and means that a person is moving towards his goal, in spite of any obstacles. Such a person is dodgy, cunning and prone to various kinds of tricks.
Based on the foregoing, it can be judged that the word is considered obsolete and very rarely used in modern Russian.