German Irrwisch ‘1. will-o’-the-wisp; 2. scamp, scallywag, imp’ and Polish urwis ‘scamp, scallywag, imp’.

• Authors: Marek Stachowski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Even if the derivation of the meaning ‘scamp, scallywag, imp’ < ‘will-o’-the-wisp’ is generally imaginable (albeit not self-evident) it is assumed here that this change is actually based on addition of a foreign meaning to a German one, rather than on semantic evolution.

Keywords

PL

German; Polish; languages in contact; semantics

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 128

Dates

published

2011

online

2015-03-05

Contributors

author

Marek Stachowski