Thread: избоина What's the sense of this word? usage, frequency, popularity? Thanks

Originally Posted by bublinka

As a native speaker I can say that I see this word for the first time in my life. I think it's professional term or professional slang.

Thanks, and I'm getting the visual now that it means something "banged out", "squeezed out" since бой means "hit", or implies some sort of violence, and из "out of" But it you say it is a pretty useless word I think that's enough. What do you think of my amateur, I am not a native Russian, etymology?
cheers!

Originally Posted by perrea

Thanks, and I'm getting the visual now that it means something "banged out", "squeezed out" since бой means "hit", or implies some sort of violence, and из "out of" But it you say it is a pretty useless word I think that's enough. What do you think of my amateur, I am not a native Russian, etymology?
cheers!

I think you may be right in your etymology, but as far I as understand language development processes it is very difficult to get that sort of things correct. Even if I know the meaning of "из" and "боина" (from the words like "выбоина", "пробоина") I cannot guess the meaning of "избоина".

Originally Posted by bublinka

I think you may be right in your etymology, but as far I as understand language development processes it is very difficult to get that sort of things correct. Even if I know the meaning of "из" and "боина" (from the words like "выбоина", "пробоина") I cannot guess the meaning of "избоина".

Discouraging that we cannot try to guess by putting (what we know) together about the roots. It is all we (non-native Russian students) have to go by when we encounter a new word.

Thanks for being honest with me.