Parents of elementary school students are faced with an unexpected, at first glance, problem. Children have difficulty memorizing poetry. And in this case, it is not related to the abilities of a particular student.
In order to learn a poem, a child must memorize its content and the meaning of individual words. Without this, memorization turns into cramming. In order for a student to memorize a text, images must be fixed in his memory that will help him reproduce it. And if the baby does not understand the meaning of individual words? The images associated with them are not formed. For example, without knowing the meaning of the word indus, the child will not be able to remember it.
Why words are going out of circulation
There are many words that our grandparents used, but are no longer used by us in everyday life. We know their meaning, we are not surprised when we meet them in fiction, but we do not use them in colloquial speech. Therefore, for our children, these are completely unfamiliar, meaningless terms. This is the so-called passive vocabulary. There is also an active one, which is used by the majority of the population.
This division of the dictionary is typical forevery era. Words leave our speech for various reasons. Some go out of circulation when the object or phenomenon associated with them disappears. They are called historicisms. For example:
- kaftan, kokoshnik, torch - disappeared household items;
- elbow, sazhen, arshin - designations of measure of length;
- clerk, officer, policeman - officials.
Other terms are gradually becoming obsolete, as new names of the same object, action, attribute appear. They are called archaisms:
- eyes - eyes;
- lanites - cheeks;
- actor - actor.
The word "Inda" in Russian literature
Reading classical works, we meet similar historicisms and archaisms:
- in A. S. Pushkin about the Golden Cockerel: "Tsar Dadon cried out of anger in the Indus";
- at M. E. S altykov-Shchedrin "Poshekhonskaya old times": "Indus longing will take";
- at I. A. Goncharova "An Ordinary Story": "For joy, Indo threw me into a sweat."
The meaning of the word indus, or indo, is found in Ushakov's dictionary. It expresses the relation of the consequence, is used to strengthen and highlight the words after it. For example: "He hit his forehead, sparks fell from his eyes." Synonyms are:
- already;
- even;
- so that;
- occasionally;
- places;
- somewhere;
- important;
- even though;
- at least;
- there;
- so that.
Why do we need obsolete words
Do I need to explain to a child the meaning of the word indus in a fairy tale? Why do we need obsolete words?
They are used in fiction to convey the originality of the era, to give sublimity, solemnity to style, to create a satirical and comic effect. In Pushkin's fairy tales, they enhance the accuracy and brightness of the characteristics, give them lyricism, folk flavor.
Do we need to know their meaning? Yes. In the end, without their understanding, the works of art of the past will turn into a set of words incomprehensible to the contemporary.
It depends only on us whether our children will be able to enjoy the beauty of the immortal creations of Pushkin, Gogol, Tyutchev, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and a whole galaxy of Russian poets and writers.
