What could be better on a cold winter evening than a cup of vitamin tea, which will warm and saturate with useful substances? But do you correctly name the fruit in Ukrainian, which is often added to such tea

Dictionaries of the Ukrainian language record its name as “shipshina”. It concerns both the flowering wild rose bush itself and its vitamin C-rich fruits.

It is interesting that both names - both Ukrainian and Russian - were formed approximately according to the same logic. They both descended from the word " Only the Russian word was formed by adding the two above-mentioned suffixes -ov- and -nik-.

This is a rather typical way for this language, it is enough to recall such words as “thorny”, “elephant”, “forty”, “cedar”, “gardener”, “official”, “temple”, “alkhovnik”, “culprit”. While in Ukrainian " “Templar” turns into “priest of the temple,” and “cedarwood” turns into “Siberian pine,” while there is no such word as “sorokovnik” in the Ukrainian language at all.

As for the " Just as in the words “cheremshina”, “vertex”, “sergeant major”, “menshina”, “bird”.