The time will come - and then he will fall.
And he will die. Well! Tired.
And probably someone will say:
― Grandfather Danil gave oak
(Alexander Tvardovsky, “Grandfather Danil Goes to the Forest,” 1939).
“To give oak” means to die. But what does oak have to do with it?
It turns out that in pagan antiquity, even during life or at birth, an oak tree was assigned to a person in a sacred grove. That is, they “gave oak” in the sense of destining it for future burial.
This ancient folk tradition preserved by the Old Believers. They hollowed out a domina from a solid log-trunk. D The funeral coffin was always a sign of special honor for the deceased. Although the material is not the best: hard, knotty...
"And nothing threatens you,
only when you're in an OAK coffin"
(Vladimir Vysotsky, “Merry Mortuary”).
C Tsar Peter I, simultaneously with the introduction of the beard tax, in January 1705 introduced a tax on oak coffins-blocks, in which people were buried since ancient times. A decree “On not making oak coffins” was issued. The Synod sent out a strict order that “no one should be buried anywhere in oak coffins,” since the coffins were made from whole oak. Peter first imposed a heavy duty on hollowed-out coffins, and then completely banned their production. In general, the reign of Petrushka the Antichrist can be expressed in the words of Maximilian Voloshin:
"The demons danced and ran wild
Across Russia up and down.
Tears and twists snow curtains
Cold northeast...
Howl, howl, snowy elements,
Sweeping away ancient coffins:
In this wind lies the whole fate of Russia -
Terrible crazy fate."
This ban is often met economic reasons : they say that oak was of strategic importance, Peter built ships from oak. The construction of just one frigate consumed more than three thousand selected trees, and under Peter more than a thousand warships were built (and all of them rotted after his death). However, ships are not built from oak alone: pine, spruce, cedar, and linden are also needed.
I think that economic reasons were still secondary. After all, it was not the material that was banned, but the technology: dugout (not plank) oak logs. A little later, the making of “dugout pine coffins” was also prohibited - they could now be made “only from boards.”Obviously, the dugout deck is the most ancient technology, the most traditional. Peter, possessed by the spirit of modernism, organically could not stand any ancient traditions. By the way, twhen did they ban gravestones and worship crosses on the roads...
And now we come to the most important thing. The coffin-house, hollowed out from a single oak trunk, resembles a dugout boat or a canoe.
If we cover this lower half of the house with the same lid on top and saw it across the middle, then the sawn half will look like Baba Yaga’s stupa.
In both cases - both as a boat and as a stupa - the coffin-house from the deck is means of transportation. Somewhere on the border of two worlds - this world and the other world - stands the World Tree.
"At Lukomorye green oak;
Golden chain on the oak tree:
Day and night the cat is a scientist
Everything goes around and around in a chain..." (A.S. Pushkin).
The picture of the world of the ancient Slavs contained the idea that somewhere on the northernmost edge of the earth - “near Lukomorye” - a giant Tree rises, the crown of which rests against the sky, and the roots (whose sacred spring flows) reach the underworld.In conspiracies, the World Tree is placed on the island of Buyan in the middle of the ocean, where a “damask oak” stands on the Alatyr stone.. In "The White Goddess" Graves notes that the Tarot consists of 22 letters of the complete alphabet of the ancient Celts and that the Hanged Man is associated with the seventh letter D, "Duir", which represents oak. The word "oak" is used in many European languages also means " door".
So what do we have? Being vertical axis Mira, the World Tree connects the human world with the “upper” (angelic) and “lower” (demonic) worlds. A tree connecting the three levels of the universe, in many languages Siberian peoples called " Expensive", according to which the shaman's soul ascends to Heaven or descends to the Underworld. Among the Slavs, the World Tree appears oak, and oak is " the door" V other world. (The oak, among other things, is the sacred tree of Perun, which is why they still knock on the tree just in case - they call Perun for help...) The World Tree is locatedon Buyan Island in the middle of the ocean, and you still have to get to it. The “means of transportation” of the deceased to the “door” to the other world is a coffin-shuttle (like Charon’s boat). In this sense, the closest equivalent of the phraseological unit “to give an oak” is “to give a chirp” or “to give a draft”. The soul is a mobile substance, like mercury. Fear can set your soul on your heels. At death, the soul separates from the body and goes to the oak tree. To die means to "give a craving for oak" or - in short - "to give oak."
Meaning of GIVE OAK in the Phraseology Guide
GIVE OAK
rude simple die. There are two versions of the origin of this expression. 1) The phrase arose on Russian soil and is associated with the verb zadubet - “to cool down, lose sensitivity, become hard.” 2) The expression originated in the south of Russia. It can be assumed that the dead were buried under the oak tree, and perhaps the image of turnover was different. The only curious thing is that the tree - a symbol of longevity - began to be used to symbolize death.
Handbook of phraseology. 2012
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I'll give you, you'll give me, past. gave, gave "a, d"alo and gave"o, Sov.; give"at, nsv. 1) (what, what to whom/what) Extend sth. ... - GIVE in the Thesaurus of Russian Business Vocabulary:
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A person’s life “flies by” as if in an instant, and before we have time to fledge, gain weight, make friends, we have to leave this mortal world. There are many expressions and sayings to describe this phenomenon, from gloomy to quite funny, but not all of them are understandable to ordinary citizens. Today we will talk about one of them, this Give oak You can see the value a little lower. On our resource website we constantly update information and publish useful information. So be sure to add us to your bookmarks.
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So let's continue what does it mean to give oak?
Give oak- this is a sarcastic designation of death, dal oak means died
Synonym of give oak: put on a wooden mackintosh; kick off; cut into oak; glue the fins; to bend, to die, to die, to go to the grave; give your soul to God; fall asleep forever; fall asleep in eternal sleep; rest in God.
Origin of Writing Oak
First option. Some researchers believe that this saying arose from the association of a dead person with a fallen tree. Since those times, several proverbs have been preserved on this subject - “A hollow tree stands, but a strong one falls” or “Lies like a log.”Second option. Since ancient times, people have been buried in wooden coffins, which allowed the deceased not to lie in the ground, but to rest in comfort. This is where several sayings came from: “a house of six planks and a wooden sheepskin coat” or “It neither breathes nor breathes, it lies in a dry tree.” And what does that same oak actually have to do with it? But the fact is that the dead were usually buried in oak dugouts.
Third option. There is a possibility that this turn of phrase was formed because in Rus' the verb “zadubet” has long existed, which means “to freeze”, “to cool down”, “to lose all sensitivity”.
Fourth option. In ancient times, in the southern part of Russia, people were buried under the shade of mighty oak trees. Probably since then, this tree, which is essentially a symbol of longevity, has become a symbol of death.
After reading this article, you learned Give oak meaning phraseology, and now you won’t be thoughtfully scratching your head, thinking about the meaning of this tricky proverb.
Give oak - die. Relatively of this phraseological unit, perhaps, the more appropriate question is not about its meaning, but about its origin. Why, in fact, to “give oak” means to die. Linguists explain this by identifying a person with a fallen, dead tree: “Lies like a log”; “A hollow tree stands, but a strong one falls.” And also with the fact that the deceased is usually placed in a wooden coffin: “Neither breathes nor breathes, he lies in a dry tree,” “a house of six boards and a wooden sheepskin coat.”
But why oak, and not, for example, maple or aspen? And here the scientists are. But because in Russian folklore there is a concept of “to freeze,” that is, to freeze. Or this: In ancient times in Rus', nobles were buried in coffins hollowed out in the trunks of felled oak trees. believes that all these are explanations, but there are no others.
Synonyms of the expression “give oak”
- give up
- take off your skates
- go crazy
- bend over
- die
- die
- spread out
- die
- go down
- pile up
- kick off
- stretch your legs
- die
- throw away the claws
- bend over
- hit the dude
Death classification
Use of the phraseological unit “Give oak” in literature
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“Oh, what a dirty wound!.. Who are you?.. - Oh, fallen! - Venka howled. - Duba will give...(V. Astafiev, “Sad Detective”)
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"V Summer Garden Some strongman performed and lay down under the car. I looked, and then went to the director and asked: “How much will you give me if I also go to bed?” He says: “And if you give me oak, who will answer then?” (V. Kaverin, “Open Book”)
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“Look, don’t give me any oak there, at least take my fur coat”(P. Nikolin, “New Courtyards”)
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“No, I almost gave an oak too! - Kolka remembered... - I was driving there, I stalled. I must have been fiddling around for an hour... My hands were frozen... I could have easily given it away!” (V. Shukshin, “Chief”)
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“The hour will come and then it will fall. And he will die. Well! Tired. And, probably, someone will say: Grandfather Danil gave the oak tree.”(A. Tvardovsky.)