Whence comes the name of that word?As first "street" appeared in the Russian language?The answer lies in the etymology.It remains only to find out why the street is so named.Let us examine this matter.
What street
dictionary defines the street as a passage between the two buildings.It can be like driving and walking.
Street - this is what is between the houses occupied space.If no nearby buildings, it is determined by the presence of static objects located at a finite distance from each other.
These sites can be created in large and small cities and in the villages, towns, on farms.
street in simple everyday designation is considered to be something that is outside of buildings.
They come in several forms.The city is required to allocate:
-
main streets;
-
line local and district;
-
residential;
-
intra- and mezhdukvartalnye;
-
hiking for people;
-
tram to rail transport;
-
deadlock that end wall or fence of the building;
-
cycling - for it allowed travel by bicycle.
in the village, as a rule, no such units.Street can be: the main, pedestrian or travel.In small villages there is one street.
But it concerns direct purpose hard surface.And whence came the word, who proposed to introduce it in the lexicon?
origin of the word
Why street called street?Words become a single root "naulok" and "lane".The most banal and simple explanation can be formed when a person begins to disassemble them for parts.Most people still believe that the so-called street, as it is located literally 'the person' homes.And this version can exist as it partly reflects the location.But she was wrong.
What does the word before?
Street dates back to ancient times.And then the gaps between the buildings said to be almost the same.Why
street called street?The roots of the word are not Russian, they are Old Slavic."Ula" - a ditch or a passage open space.The ancestors of modern humans called these words a place where nothing grew, not standing houses.It was a wasteland.
The peoples in the Indo-European linguistic plane was its cognates.In Greece, a cavity called the aulos.In the Westphalian language, when pointed at the meadow, said aul.Now it becomes more than clear why the street was named street.
Externally street may vary depending on the urban sprawl, the changes in it.It can build up and make the park on the site.
types streets
There are different versions of the streets.The space between the buildings is called differently, depending on the width, the length, the purposes for which it serves:
-
street, on both sides surrounded by greenery, is called an alley, they are often created in the parks;
-
Boulevard styled spacious area with benches, trees and maybe even alleys;
-
road intended for transport;
-
ring is the one street that has a corresponding shape;
-
trunk - busy road;
-
lane - is the distance between the great outdoors;
-
embankment - the area between the houses and the water body;
-
Avenue runs straight, very wide.
Usually each street for greater ease of recognition has its own name.Names can be stored for a long time and dates back to pre-revolutionary Russian life.
Why so called street
There's a whole science which is engaged in research of the old name, origin streets.It called the place names.
basic ideas for street names:
-
names of political leaders;
-
name of the park;
-
names of trees that are planted near;
-
monuments or churches that are on the street;
-
name of the outstanding scientist, an artist, a painter, a writer, a poet who lived there;
-
indication of the geographical location.
Why not call out the name of a famous person?Some people claim that private call a spade - a bad omen.Others say that while she surname begins to fade, it is repeated many times, and not always in a positive way.The memory of the man will be erased.It remains a daily sense of place.
After the political regime overthrown, the streets can be renamed, as former party ideologues cause irritation.In addition, the old names are forgotten.Contemporaries did not know after whom was called before one or another section of the city.
Two names of one street
In many cities, there are two names.Locals call the same name, and the authorities in their lists of approved more.
Recently, there is a tendency to rename streets, returning them to their legal names associated with a long history.
For example, the tourists are wondering why the Kursk streets have two names.The fact is that the city authorities have conceived a long time to return the old names.They even created a special commission, which was to search for ancient names.
Nevertheless, it turned out that is not so easy to overcome the bureaucratic procedures.Officially, all the names are the same as they were.The process is extremely slow.They even understand why the street was called street-so, and the other renamed so.Every year more and more people begin to get confused, created confusion.
Historians studying the emergence and development of cities, have expressed the hope that the last name will be back soon.
