What word did the word "siply" come from? Is it a sipak, or a sypoy?

The comic characters of films and literary works often speak in a hushed voice. Hateful with hissing, speech may indicate a cold respiratory illness, and sometimes filmmakers and writers allude to a bad habit of excessive drinking. In both cases, such a voice, hoarse-hoarse, signals that the vocal cords have suffered and require treatment. But why is this muffled-hoarse-hissing speech denoted by this word?

First version, musical

An ancient Russian wind instrument made from willow bark is called rattletrap. This in itself eloquently testifies to the specific timbre of the sound issued by this tune. She also has a second name - Siposha. The instrument was used not for performing lyrical folk songs, its original purpose is signaling. Sagittarians used it in order to blow the whistle, release, signal to attack or retreat, in general, in the same functional key as the bugle. So what if the sound is hoarse? Sipy even better, under it you do not oversleep and confuse it hard with something else. This tool possessed some advantages, among which simplicity of manufacture, the extremely low cost price (it is possible to tell, zero), but lacks too were. First, it is fragile. Secondly, willows do not grow everywhere, and in case of failure it could cause problems. And third, all the same sound. As the Russian army reformed in the Petrine years, the demands for the aesthetic side increased, the standards were Europeanized, and their appearance and timbre did not match them. And there is no copper shine, and the signal is somehow hoarse. Sick - from the word "Siposha". In some ensembles of folk instruments, adhering to ancient traditions, this pipe, however, is still used today. It is played by musical parts in fragments full of humor or expressing deliberate rudeness.

What else can the word "siply" mean?

A sly person, in the understanding of our distant ancestors, means fierce, and hiding his aggression. Such an enemy acts surreptitiously, he does not want to discover his aggressive nature ahead of time. Here, too, he talks softly, muffling for the time being an angry voice, in which cruelty shows through. Villains in movies (especially in old Soviet), too, sometimes say so. The viewer immediately has a feeling that the screen is a criminal, and you can expect any insidious trick from him.

Who was the sipak with the hoarse voice

In Moscow, Penza, the Yaroslavl and Vologda provinces in ancient times, sipaks were called ignoramuses, ruffians and other lowly-respected representatives of society, who had a low behavioral culture. This word was considered abusive, they could also be called a well-educated member of society, who, due to a misunderstanding or ignorance, violated the generally accepted norms of behavior. More often than all these sipaks (the etymology of the word, in turn, goes to the concept of rough sleighs-scythe or strong wind-blizzard) spoke in hoarse, sated or "drunk" voices. Hence the meaning of the word "siply", corresponding to its modern understanding.