Journey into the Word

"Journey into the Word" is an extraordinarily captivating book by Eduard Vartanyan, telling about the life of words – their origin (etymology), transformations over time, the emergence of new meanings… After all, the Russian language spoken a hundred or two hundred years ago is quite different from the modern one. How do new words arise? Where do borrowings come from? What are phraseological units and why do people wish "ne pukh, ne pera"? Who invented the word "million" and why are dumplings called that? The author will reveal all this and much more to us. For the average school age.