Threshing floor - what is it? Perhaps today not everyone can answer this question. After all, this word has practically come out of our everyday life. And it was used before, mainly in agriculture. We will analyze in detail that this is a threshing floor in an article.
What is said in the dictionary?
The following is written in dictionaries about the fact that it is threshing floor.
Firstly, this agricultural term refers to a piece of land that has been cleared on peasant farms in order to stack stacks of bread on it, thresh it and process grain.
Example: “Behind the courtyard there were various courtyard buildings, such as barns, stables, livestock buildings, sheds for agricultural machinery, dryers, and rigs. And then there was a threshing floor, which was cluttered with shocks and sweeps of straw. "
Secondly, this is a room intended for storage and processing of compressed bread.
Example: "The structure of the buildings on the manor courtyard included stables, baths, a barn, other outbuildings, as well as the outbuildings of a large stone house with a semicircular pediment."
For a better understanding of the meaning of “barn”, consider its synonyms and origin.
Synonyms
These include the following words:
- building;
- the room;
- barn;
- barn;
- Riga;
- barn;
- playground;
- current;
- current;
- breadbasket;
- clown;
- goumennik;
- threshing floor.
Next, we proceed to the origin of the word under study.
Etymology
This word refers to all-Slavic and has options such as:
- “Homely” - in Old Slavonic;
- “Threshing floor” - in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian and the dialect word “huvno” in the same languages;
- gumno - in Slovenian, Polish, Lower Sorbian;
- huno - in the Upper Luzhniki;
- humno - in Slovenian, Czech, Slovak.
There are two versions regarding its origin:
- One of them says that the word has developed from two parts - gu and mno. The first part of gu is identical to “gov” (the part of the word “beef”, which now means “cattle meat”, and earlier simply meant “cattle” and came from the old Russian “govado”). Her etymologists compare with the Indian word gaus and the Greek bus, meaning "bull, ox." The second part of mno comes from mnti - "mash". Together, both of these parts literally mean "a place where bread is crushed (that is, threshed) using cattle."
- Another version reports that the word owes its origin to the verb gubiti, meaning "to destroy," from which gubno came from. In this case, the original meaning of the word is interpreted as "the place where the bread was threshed, previously cleaned of vegetation (ruined)."
In conclusion, considering the fact that this is a threshing floor, we suggest that you learn more about this place.
Earlier and now
The threshing floor appeared in Russia in antiquity, but when exactly, today no one undertakes to say with accuracy. Previously, the threshing floor was a rammed land, which was often enclosed. In peasant farms, an unfinished vein was formed on it, and its threshing was carried out, as well as the movement of grain. Sometimes canopies were arranged on the threshing floor, a sheepskin was placed - a structure intended for drying sheaves before threshing.
The part of the threshing floor on which the bread is threshed, grain is cleaned and sorted is called “current”. But for threshing, they often erected a separate barn made of wood, which was called “clown”. And also the threshing floor could be a single building for all of these purposes. It was also built of wood.
The rich or medium-sized farms had their own threshing floor, and those that were poorer had one for two or three yards. If the farm was large, then a special person was appointed to look after the threshing floor, who was called a gumensky, gumensky or gumensky.
Today the threshing floor is a platform on which machines and equipment stand, with the help of which threshing of grain crops, such as rye, barley, wheat, oats, is performed. As well as seed, which include hemp, flax, peas.