Apple", "mother" and "husband", the words have survived for thousands of years. Even an accomplished etymologist cannot name the first word of the Russian language: writing appeared when the vocabulary was already thousands of years old. According to Moscow University philologist Igor Gubryakov, the "apple" survived almost unchanged from those times. Among the oldest words, the specialist named "no", "mother" and "husband": they are similar in various languages ​​​​of Europe and Asia, and are pronounced in the same way as thousands of years ago; It turned out that words about what a person sees every day live most powerfully. The full list from the philologist is in our material.

Apple", "mother" and "husband", the words have survived for thousands of years. Even an accomplished etymologist cannot name the first word of the Russian language: writing appeared when the vocabulary was already thousands of years old. According to Moscow University philologist Igor Gubryakov, the "apple" survived almost unchanged from those times. Among the oldest words, the specialist named "no", "mother" and "husband": they are similar in various languages ​​​​of Europe and Asia, and are pronounced in the same way as thousands of years ago; It turned out that words about what a person sees every day live most powerfully. The full list from the philologist is in our material.