Have you ever seen a red-gray bird that stands out so brightly in winter in white snow? Now try to remember its name in Ukrainian.
The explanatory dictionary of the Ukrainian language in 11 volumes says that in Ukrainian it is a pretty creation to be correctly called the word " The root of this word is obviously " It is from this noun that the name of the bird.
Etymology experts associate this precisely with the fact that brightly colored birds are clearly visible in the snow.
Interestingly, in the Ukrainian language there is a similar word " Despite the fact that it is formed in the same way as most of the feminity inherent in our language, in fact, it does not mean the female of the bullfinch. So the people call anemones. These flowers bloom in spring one of the first and have a white color of the petals. In parks and forests, their flowering places resemble islands of snow that was unsuccessful in the sun.