Hearing the word "dry forest", one person will imagine a dry, lifeless forest. Another will remember how he wanted to drink water the next morning after a feast. The third one will present winter fishing in Siberia, where dry land is layered ice. How many other meanings of this word exist?
It happens that a well-known dialect in some area uses a common word with a different meaning. In this case, you can explore the root of the word and its synonyms. Then much will become clear.
What the dictionaries say
It is clear from the suffix that "dry land" is a noun. All dictionaries indicate its meaning as "dry trees and individual branches." According to the examples given in the dictionaries of Dahl, Efremova, Ushakov and the Maly Academic, it becomes clear that dry wood is called not only a forest that has dried up on the vine, but also deadwood - dry branches thrown by the wind from the peaks. Synonyms for this meaning are “deadwood”, “fallow wood”, “brushwood”.
Wiktionary has two more meanings. The colloquial word "dry" is a thirst after alcoholic libations. And in youth jargon dry wine is called dry wine.
Is it possible to collect dried wood
Not so long ago, a law was passed under which you can collect dry branches from the forest without special permission from the authorities. In this regard, many people have questions: what is dry wood and dead wood, is it possible to take a tree felled by a storm, and what is the punishment for unauthorized felling?
Questions are not idle, considering already fined for appropriation of trees of valuable species. It turns out that no one canceled the decision on the need for a permit for felling. Even if the tree is dry, you will need a certificate for felling from the forestry. But where the forest is not divided into dead wood and he althy trees, the punishment will be stricter.
Why such confusion? The thing is that for foresters dry wood is not firewood. It can be linden, from which wooden products are cut; larch, going to logs, and other species, very valuable just because they are dried on the vine. For an ignorant person, all this is firewood.
Usage examples:
- We collected dry wood for the fire, enough for the whole night.
- The stove was kindled with dry wood, the firewood turned out to be damp.
- Experts arrived to determine the quality of dried wood. It was decided to transport the trees by helicopter.
Sushnyak - when you want to drink
Intense thirst after drinking alcohol is one of the symptoms of a hangover. The mucous membrane of the mouth and throat dries up, you want to drink so much that it is impossible to get drunk. Some people think that at such a moment the body is severely dehydrated. Apparently, that's why this state got its name."dry". This word describes well how a person feels.
Use example:
- My head hurts, dry wood is hammering, I'll stop drinking!
- After yesterday, the sushnik tortured me, nothing helps.
- Although he is not seen drunk, he obviously suffers from dryness in the morning - he greedily drinks water from the tap.
In fact, there is water in the body, but it has moved to the intercellular areas and created edema. The volume of blood is reduced, the brain gives a signal about the need to urgently replenish the supply of water. It will restore blood volume, wash out decay products from tissues, remove swelling, and with them a headache.
Sushnyak happens both with food poisoning and with intoxication. The symptoms are alcohol-like. But in this case, there may be dehydration - without edema, because there is a catastrophic lack of water to sustain life. Such a situation can arise during a hike: in the heat, with strong physical exertion, when the body loses water very quickly.
Sushnyak: the meaning of the word among the inhabitants of Siberia
In Irkutsk and Chita, this is how they call ice of a special kind. It is a layered layer, in which there are air gaps and ice tiers several centimeters thick. Due to the fact that between the ice layers is not water, but air, such ice is dry and is called dry land. Synonyms of the word - “empty ice”, “dried”, “waste ice”.
Dry land forms in winter when the river freezes. After freezing, there is no inflow of water, and the water turns into ice at a lower level. Sometimes dry land is formed under ice afterrunoff of water under the top layer of ice. Such ice is not suitable for crossing, it cannot withstand a horse and can be dangerous for a person.
Usage examples:
- An ice-hole was cut while fishing, it turned out to be dry land.
- On the Amur, auto movement on ice was banned in order to avoid breaks due to dry land (waste ice).
F. Wrangel wrote about such a phenomenon, saying that the horse fell through the ice, but when it was pulled out, it did not get wet. The Yakuts claimed that there were several such layers.
Sushnyak: student slang
Young people like to use slang words in conversation. Psychologists call this a kind of game, an opportunity to join the team and be recognized as “one of their own”. Expressing thoughts in the traditional language - colloquial or literary - students begin when discussing serious problems. In everyday life, you can often hear words that are difficult to understand.
In the student language, "sushnyak" is dry wine. The youth came up with many names for alcoholic products: "shampusik", "talk", "paint", "pivasik". Some people think that the name "dry" wine got for dry mouth after it, but this is not so. In dry wine, sugar has fermented into alcohol, leaving only a residual amount of it.
Use example:
- We bought paints and dried wood - we don't know who likes what (we bought red and white wine, we don't know who likes what).
- Girls - shampusik and sushnyachok, and men - vodka (shampusik is champagne).
- What did you bring! It's a bastard! We are notwe drink. Would they take some dried fruit or something (mutter is a cheap fortified fruit and berry wine).
It may seem that the word carries a rough connotation. But it's not. In the youth environment, many words have appeared that differ in a similar formation - with the suffix -ak (-yak). Examples are the words “useless”, “late”, “cool”, “passage”, “hanging”, “walking”. Well, how could such a figurative word not appear instead of two sour “dry wine”?
Conclusion
As we have seen, the word has new meanings. This was probably due to the root meaning "dry". Be that as it may, the word lives and acquires meanings, sometimes very figurative. There is a development of the Russian spoken language.
