Many insidious concepts with questionable spelling and ambiguous sound are found by contemporaries in everyday life. It is enough to go to the kitchen to see one of them: this is a colander, which every housewife uses to create complex dishes or when cooking banal pasta. What are the difficulties with writing a vocabulary term, and where do they come from? How not to make mistakes? To do this, you need to deal with etymology.
German integrity
The main problem arises when remembering regional colloquial forms. The first half of the word turns into a "dru", and the second into a "hat." Such changes are explained by a simpler pronunciation for Russian speakers. After all, the "Druslyak" comes out naturally, the speech apparatus does not have to strain. Unfortunately, this version will be incorrect, since the definition along with the kitchen equipment was borrowed in Germany. The original durchschlagen consists of two halves:
- durch - means “through, through”, penetration through monolithic material;
- schlagen - points to a way to create holes with precise hits.
Together they describe the process of forming utensils and are literally translated “punching through”. The Germans literally take the word "colander." The meaning of the word indicates perforated dishes for specific purposes. But what is this goal?
Help in the kitchen
The speaker implies a special saucepan or ladle. Most often, they are compact and medium in size, their bottom (sometimes - the walls) is dotted with many holes. By its purpose, such utensils are as close as possible to the sieve. With it, the owners separate the liquid from the solid elements, perform other operations on food:
- discard rice, pasta, etc .;
- rub vegetables, fruits and berries;
- washed small products;
- strain cottage cheese whey, etc.
Most often, the device is made of light metal, the structures are on a long handle for protection against splashes or with two "ears" at the edges. There are plastic versions that are usually not recommended for use with broths or other hot liquids. A multifunctional item often becomes a means of defense in games. And for the followers of pastafarianism is a mandatory headdress.
In everyday communication
Not the worst purchase for a vocabulary. To this day, a colander is a convenient and indispensable tool in the kitchen. The word is devoid of evaluative characteristics, denotes a specific subject, and therefore can be used in conversations even at an official level. The only exception will be the comparison of something with the term under study: thus, the interlocutor usually indicates the unreliability of the object as a storage, the presence of holes in it, even in a figurative sense.