In Old Church Slavonic, "beef" meant all cattle or just a herd. However, beef meant only bull
MEAT. Eating cow meat in Rus' was not accepted. They were kept solely for the sake of
MILK. In turn, the Old Slavonic "beef" is formed from the Indo-European root "gou". In other languages, you can find analogues of this word: "cow" - a cow in English, "kov" - in Armenian. Over time, "beef" fell into disu...