“You carry some rubbish” - such a phrase can sometimes be heard by a person in response to some utterances incomprehensible to other people. Of course, there are many other synonyms for this word, for example, nonsense, nonsense, nonsense, but the word "rubbish" is still used by many. If you are interested in learning about its origin, then just keep reading!
Meaning of the word “rubbish”
It turns out that rubbish is not only a synonym for words like nonsense, nonsense. In addition, there is another definition. According to him, rubbish is small things of poor quality, put together. For example, scraps, debris, rags, etc.
The history and origin of the word "rubbish"
The first use in literary speech dates back to the 40s of the last century. This word (rubbish) was mentioned by Gogol in his poem "Dead Souls", after which it spread further in the literature. However, it is clear that it was taken by Gogol from colloquial speech. And here its origin is already unclear.
One of the versions widespread in etymology says that the word "rubbish" appeared during the Mongol-Tatar invasion as a result of imitation of Tatar speech that was incomprehensible to Russian-speaking people.
It is interesting that there are various versions of this word in dialects of the Russian language, for example, billiard, keriberd, kuliberd. There are other versions of the origin of the word nonsense. It is possible that it was formed using the suffix method of the verb to whiten, which is close in meaning to the verb chat.
In this case, in the word "Belebenda" (written "and" instead of "e" according to pronunciation standards), the sounds [n] and [e] were likened to with the change of the letter "n" to the letter "p" (for example, a similar phenomenon occurred and during the formation of the word “mean” from the original “mean”), after which it changed into the familiar word “rubbish”.
Another version: it may be that "rubbish" is a word whose formation took place on the basis of the Turkic languages ​​(this is a family of languages ​​related to the Altai macro-family of languages ​​that are widespread in Eastern Europe and Asia). Some etymologists can’t understand at all where this word comes from; they call it etymologically dark.
Version inconsistencies
Thus, it is impossible to say for sure where this word came from, but now it is quite popular in both everyday and literary speech. We hope that after this article you will remember that this is rubbish.