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This article aims to present the image of a woman in Polish affectionate names in the light of the theory of gender stereotypes. Special attention has been paid to the linguistic and cultural status of female affectionate names. Based on the analysis of selected female affectionate names, the author demonstrates that they contain some women’s representations that depend on features assigned to women in social and cultural stereotypes (physical, mental and behavioural) such as beauty, grace, timidity, kindness, peace, protectiveness, modesty, etc. It has been noticed that this image can be both positive and negative.
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Healing traditions are very likely to have roots in the beginnings of any civilisation, which comes from the natural needs of a human striving for physical and mental comfort. On ethnically Polish lands, medical culture developed together with the society, which is reflected in the names of healers. The linguistic and cultural image of a doctor is affected by the anthropocentric experiences of speakers of Polish, stereotypes and the media that strengthen its versions, all recorded in the lexis, phraseology and paremiography. Today (according to the survey), negative traits of doctors (31) are significantly more common than their virtues (9) that include: being specific, accurate, efficient, devoted to duty and caring. According to the survey, today’s doctor is, most of all, in a hurry, overworked and tired, but also dissatisfied, uninterested in the patient, impatient, late, cold and always angry. People’s focus on doctors’ negative traits has been a permanent phenomenon for centuries.
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The article Keywords in Historical Material – Challenges and Constraints is an attempt to present the use of currently developed, multimillion lexical databases. The author reviews currently created corpora of Polish historical language and evaluates possibilities of extracting keywords in the old language material similar to undertakings relating to the contemporary language. Based on usage frequency, she selects 240 top ranking words in the material Electronic Corpus of the 17th and 18th Century Polish Texts (up to 1772) “Korba”. It is an introduction to further analyses and comparisons.
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The article has verified a hypothesis suggesting that the sequences mentioned in the title and similar to them are constrained syntactic groups, i.e., they do not form a regular combination of simple signs. The verification has been conducted on the basis of a three-stage procedure taking into account the semantic features and inner qualities of the studied expressions, namely, their composition as well as the structural and linear links between segments. It has been indicated that the components of the studied sequences jointly express meaning which can be considered as a form of perlocution: ‘something changes within fragments of time undergoing observation whose measure is determined by a variable component’. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that the two components of a sequence that can be exchanged can be realized not only by standard measures of time (second, minute, hour, week), but also by nouns referring to events (match, meeting, term). Also, there is a presentation of the basic limitations in the realization of a variable component and a mutual linear arrangement of variable and constant components. A characteristic of the expressions of the type from week to week, from novel to novel, from match to match is supplemented by the remarks concerning their external syntax.
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This paper presents war literature for children and young people. The perspective of the analysis is multi-layered and the whole work deals with the important and difficult topic of warfare, persecution of ethnic, religious and national groups, expulsion and the Warsaw Uprising. It takes into account both the nature of the topic covered and the age of the audience, which is important because of the vocabulary used in the text. The article has inaccuracies resulting from the lack of specific guidelines for adapting the literature to the competence of the young addressee. (This is not the case with guidelines for computer games or school reading). These are additional difficulties that an adult has to deal with when choosing a book for a child. Therefore, it is important to know the child, their maturity level and their knowledge of the story, and often the best solution is to simply read together. When analysing the books discussed in this article, attention should also be paid to the time period of the plot – pre-war, war, post-war – the form of the narrative and the language or stylistic devices used to describe the war. The most popular ways of telling about war are metaphors, similes, personification. War is often compared to a monster or a giant that destroys everything around it – both materially and spiritually. In turn, the characters and situations described are presented on the basis of the opposition of good and evil, white and black, or in the situation of description from the perspective of time: past and present. In addition, linguistic activities that convey the emotions the reader feels while reading and experiences together with the characters are presented. The language games, e.g. Władza Ludowa described as Władza Lodowa, or the diminutive sklepiszcza, are not only interesting solutions that add variety to the text, but also facilitate the understanding of the atmosphere of the time described. An important element of the analysis is the narration from the perspective of children, both Poles who grew up during the war and Jews who were separated from their families and hidden. Such a description makes it easier for the reader to identify with the character and better understand the content.
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The analysis of 694 proverbs selected from widely accessible collections allows their classification into semantic fields ranging from names of foods, ways of eating, the necessity and urge to eat as well as the effects of eating, to the rules of eating and conduct during meals. Most of the proverbs analysed refer to actual situations (ca. 84%); the remaining (ca. 16%) include metaphors that illustrate or codify social behaviours and their consequences. Proverbs registered in the 19th century written Polish language constitute over a half (52,4%) of the data, while those from the 20th century amount to over one fourth (26,3%). The rest (26,3%) is dated as coming from the 15th–18th century. Over 72% of the proverbs analysed are syntactically complex with regular sound instrumentation and about 28% are syntactically simple. The analysis brings out a very important need to regulate the rules of the eating process and of conduct while eating, as well as the significance of healthy nutrition.
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The tobacco smoking custom in the Polish lexis and phraseology Polish phraseology contains a large number of lexical units reflecting old customs of Polish people. Among them, one can find those which originate either from the tobacco smoking custom or the habit of taking snuff. The article deals with the lexis and phraseology from the so-called “tobacco circle”. The semantic field of the names under examination is treated in a broader scope; thus it contains not only lexemes: cigar, pipe, cigarette, snuff, tobacco, but also the names of accessories and people connected with a tobacco industry such as: cigar-holder, pipe maker, cigarette manufacturer, cigarette-case, snuff-box, and the verbs describing smoking tobacco actions such as puff, drag, toke, fume, smoke.
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The names of interiors in noblemen’s mansion houses Architectural and functional transformations of noblemen’s mansion houses present an extremely appealing subject for a linguist as they convey very rich vocabulary. The article describes how the residents of mansion houses “organized” their living space. I would like to focus particularly on the lexis which served as a means to outline this space. I examine its structure and etymology. The excerpted sources of the material (the names of the interiors, edifices and less frequently isolated spaces) are rural self-help books from the 19th century, mansion’s inventories and architectural maps from the 16th – 19th centuries. The accumulated vocabulary depicts changing needs of a human being.
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The author of this article sees the so-called grammatical categories as semantic categories which transfer information of key-importance for a successful act of communication. This is the reason why this information is grammaticalized, i.e. it has regular and predictable formal markers. In the center of the author’s interest is the category of case in the Slavic languages, especially in Polish. She presents her concept of the semantic paradigm of the category of case and demonstrates a striking parallelism between the meanings of particular cases (= the quantums of information grammaticalized in the formal case paradigm) on the one hand and the meanings of the nominal mutational desubstantival derivatives on the other hand. In her view this parallelism confirms the assumption that impulses leading to grammaticalization are of a primarily semantic character.
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A content analysis of the E. Orzeszkowa’s Positivist novel Nad Niemnem [On the Niemen] makes it possible to indicate a number of different mother-types featured in the book and created by its author, namely: the Polish Mother, the caring cat mother, the cuckoo-type mother, the mother in absentia and the willow mother. The type of the Polish Mother (an ideal of patriotic motherhood, Polish: Matka Polka, the Polish Mother was the secular equivalent of the Holy Mother) is epitomized in Maria Kirłowa, earnestly and wisely devoted to her children. She runs and manages the household single-handedly, is a guardian of the home, and all alone raises her children and prepares them to live in the society of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Another mother, Andrzejowa Korczyńska, a proud Polish patriot, makes a rather monumental figure. Living a life full of ideals and rich promises, this widow seems to provide a model of proper motherhood to be followed, but, being alienated in thefamily and her social environment, is eventually a failure and she fails in life. Her son takes advantage of her, knowing that she is ready to do everything for him no matter what happens, like a cat-mother. The mother-cuckoo is represented by Starzyńska, who chooses her personal interests over the importance of family and her children, Janek and Antolka, and lets somebody else raise them. The reason behind her behavior is the need for remarrying, apparently stronger than her maternal feelings. The mother in absentia, i.e. one that is virtually non-existent in the process of the education and development of her children, is self-concentrated and self-obsessed Emilia. In this particular case, the role of Witold and Leonia’s mother is taken over by Marta, who – like a willow-mother – raises them, feeds them, educates, consoles and pampers them, not forgetting, however, about being a demanding and controlling guardian. Most of all, however, she is always there and is always ready to assist them. The novel, set in the complicated reality of the challenging second half of the nineteenth century, is a moving reminder how restrictive women’s standing was and how this situation influenced the woman’s family duties as well. These responsibilities were viewed and executed by contemporary mothers differently and had a different meaning for them, which is very eloquently presented in Eliza Orzeszkowa’s realistic novel.
Poradnik Językowy
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vol. 778
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In this paper, the author analyses the Polish nouns czyn (an act) and wyczyn (a feat). She aims to fi nd semantic differences between these units. The author quotes selected dictionary defi nitions, analyses examples from NKJP (National Corpus of Polish); in her discussions, she refers to both philosophical theories (by H. Arendt, Cz.S. Bartnik, R. Ingarden, K. Wojtyła), and linguistic diagnoses (by A. Bogusławski, M. Danielewiczowa, I. Duraj-Nowosielska, A. Wierzbicka). The author concludes that, despite the guidance provided in some lexicographic studies, the lexeme wyczyn cannot be defi ned with the phrase ‘wyjątkowy czyn’ (an exceptional act).
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The object of this sketch is the legal and administrative Polish language of the interwar period, that is the time of the Second Polish Republic. Regaining the statehood after one and a half century of the Partitions marked signifi cant transformations in the history of the nation and the society, the return of the Polish language to offi ces, the gradual standardisation of the language of administration, unifi cation and codifi cation of law. The political system of the Second Polish Republic evolved. The system of parliamentary democracy, adopted in 1919 and established in the March Constitution, transformed gradually, in particular after the May Coup in 1926, into the authoritarian system. The principal value in the March Constitution is the nation, which was bestowed with power. In the April Constitution, the principal value is the state as the common good of all citizens. There were not enough Poles with a good background among administrative offi cers. A major role in preparing templates of documents was played by lawyers, who gave consideration also to language aspects.
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Pamiętnik Wacławy by E. Orzeszkowa is a novel presenting the fate of a young woman in a twofold reality: at first, it is assigned to the drawing room and social life; then, in the second stage, to a study. An important role in the linguistic creation of Wacława’s fate is played by the parents: mother – the parlor lady, father – researcher, university professor. The construction of these characters reflects the two different worlds that a young woman explores in order to ultimately choose the latter. The language (style, lexis, syntax) corresponds with the creation of Wacława as a spoiled miss (in the first volume) and a mature young lady (in the second volume).
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Przedmiotem artykułu jest kreacja Aleksandra Puszkina w dramacie Jarosława IwaszkiewiczaMaskarada. Analizie poddano głównie wypowiedzi samego Puszkina oraz innych postaciodnoszące się do rosyjskiego poety. Pozwoliło to pokazać, za pomocą jakich środków i w jakisposób autor dramatu tworzy zgłębiony psychologicznie portret wielkiego twórcy.
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The subject of the article is the role of Aleksander Pushkin in Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s drama Masquerade. The analysis covers mainly statements by Pushkin himself and other characters relating to the Russian poet. This allowed us to show what means and how the author of the play creates a psychologically profound portrait of a great artist.
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Michał Amszejewicz in Dykcjonarz, which was a record of vocabulary of foreign origin used in the Polish language in the middle of the 19th century, recorded more than eight hundred lexical units (838 in 633 entries, which comprise 511 monosemes and 122 polysemes with two or more meanings) present in the lexis as a result of interference between the Polish and the German languages. Their functional allocation is diversified, with specialist lexis being dominant. Analysed vocabulary in the middle of the 19th century was functionally allocated to various areas of activity, firstly to crafts – 155 lexical units (18.5%), next to military and its organisation – 93 lexical units (11.1%), merchant’s profession and its specifics, commercial and financial aspects – 72 lexical units (8.6%). The remaining 518 lexical units (61.8%) are scattered in the lexicon of another several dozens of specialties, such as rafting, mining, metallurgy, forestry, meteorology, gardening, fine arts and others. Until the beginning of the 21st century, out of 838 analysed lexical units a diversified life cycle was preserved by 321 (38.3%), and 517 (61.7%) were transferred to linguistic archives of the Polish Language. In analysed vocabulary of German origin, actively used in the most recent Polish Language, biased lexis is dominant – in terms of terminology and style; less frequently these are words with a neutral character, regarded as basic vocabulary. Analysed Germanisms have also undergone semantic changes, i.e. specialisation, generalisation, metaphorisation and partial transformations. Germanisms in the Polish Language of the 19th century are a cultural and linguistic fact, which is characterised by certain specific conditions, also in terms of the time of their use and functionality, which has been emphasised on numerous occasions by their researcher – Bogusław Nowowiejski.
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Lithuanian borrowings denoting human states, dispositions and the ways of expressing frankness and unwillingness (based on the material of Polish dialects in Lithuania)The present article is a continuation of the previous studies (Rutkowska, 2009, 2010) dedicated to Lithuanian borrowings. Two previous articles have been related to human appearance and mental characteristics. The subject of the present article is Lithuanian borrowings which describe specific human dispositions and mental states, as well as the usage of epithets and the ways of addressing other people (terms of endearment). The lexical material of the article and vocabulary analyzed previously allows to state that the words referring to man make up a group of fairly large vocabulary of Lithuanian origin. It has been observed that words of such semantic categories as agriculture, weaving, fishery, construction are characterized nowadays as archaic because of the disappearance of a particular type of folk culture and changes in the field of rural activities. However, different ways of describing a person are still present in various dialect areas. A varying degree of adaptation of borrowed lexemes suggests that the penetration of such lexemes was a continuous process, which lasted throughout the period of the contact of Polish and Lithuanian dialects, and this process is continuing at the present day. The reason for the linguistic behavior of this type of Lithuanian words in Polish dialects is semantic capacity and expressiveness of these lexemes. Литуанизмы, обозначающие состояния и склонности человека, а также способы выражения им нежности или пренебрежения (на материале польских говоров в Литве)Данная статья является продолжением предыдущих исследований, посвященных заимствованиям из литовского языка, характеризующим человека (Rutkowska, 2009, 2010). Две предыдущих статьи были посвящены анализу лексики, определяющей внешний облик и черты характера человека. Предметом исследования в данной статье являются слова, связанные с типичными склонностями человека, а также афектонимы и прозвища. Лексика, представленная в трех очередных статьях, свидетельствует о многочисленности заимствований данной лексико-семантической группы и ее продуктивности. Если слова, принадлежащие к таким семантическим категориям, как земледелие, ткачество, строительство, характеризуются архаичностью в силу перемен, происходящих в сельскохозяйственной сфере жизни, то названия, определяющие человека, и в дальнейшем употребляются на разных диалектных ареалах Литвы. Различная степень адаптации данных лексем свидетельствует о том, что процесс проникновения заимствованной лексики был длительным и существовал на протяжениии всего периода контактирования польских и литовских говоров, активно подолжается и в настоящее время. Причиной сохранения в польских говорах данной лексики является ее антропоцентризм, семантическая наполненность и экспрессивность.
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Lithuanian loanwords describing human character and behaviour (based on the material of Polish dialects in Lithuania) The aim of the present article is to describe the vocabulary of Lithuanian origin that correlates with an individual’s psychology. The major attention in the article is given to the function of this lexical group in the present-day Polish dialects, as well as to the changes, which took place in the semantic structure of the borrowings in comparison to the original expressions. In this connection, the area of the usage of corresponding lexemes in Lithuanian dialects has been established, their semantic structure analysed, and stylistic marking regarded. Most of the analyzed material has been chosen from my personal collection of Lithuanisms, and it contains vocabulary used in various dialect regions of Lithuania. The Lithuanisms discussed in the article correlate to such individual’s qualities as loquacity, proneness to complain, moan, wail, frivolity, slowness, negligence, slyness and foolishness. Заимствования из литовского языка обозначающие черты характера человека и типичные для него способы поведения (на материале польских говоров в Литве)В статье рассматривается группа лексики литовского происхождения связанная с психической сферой жизни человека. Основное внимание обращено на способ функционирования заимствованных лексических единиц в польских говорах и на те семантические сдвиги, которые произошли в смысловой структуре заимствований по сравнению со словами-источниками. В связи с этим определена сфера употребления соответсвующих лексем-прототипов в литовских говорах, пpoанализирован их семантический объем, учтена стилистическая окраска. Основой исследования является диалектная лексика, собранная автором на различных польскоязычных ареалах Литвы. Анализируемая в статье заимствования касаются таких характерных для человека черт, как: болтливость, сварливость, плаксивость, легкомыслие, медлительность, нерасторопность, хитрость и смекалистость.
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Lexicon of Albanian mythology: areal studies in the polylingual region of Azov SeaFour villages with Albanian population are located in the Ukraine: Karakurt (Zhovtnevoe) set up in 1811 (Odessa region), Tyushki (Georgievka), Dzhandran (Gammovka) and Taz (Devninskoe) set up in 1862 (Zaporizh’a region). The analysis of lexica of the Albanian subdialect of the Ukraine shows the continuation of the use of mythological terminology between the districts of the South-Eastern Albania (Korça, Devoll, Kolonja) and the Albanian-speaking villages of the Azov Sea region.The Albanian subdialect of the Ukraine has no collective lexeme to designate all the representatives of the demonic world. The most common forms of denotation are these: nok janë të prastúrë (lit. ‘they are unclean’), shpírti nok i prastúrë (lit. ‘unclean spirit’).There are a large number of stories about the transformation of people into the animals – dogs, cats, goats, foxes, chickens etc. and even into things (the most common plot variant is about transformation of a man into a wheel).Also we observe the personification of the steppe wind among the Albanians of the Ukraine. Thus there is a special word for such a kind of wind in this subdialect – varalluzhg/ë, –a (‘varaluzhga’).The Balkan peoples believe that the fate of every individual is assigned by three mythological characters. Most of them, including the Albanians, consider that these three characters are female. They appear several hours after the child’s birth and assign its fate. The Albanians of the Ukraine keep these beliefs, but according to their system of mythological images, there are three men determining the child’s fate instead of three women. As the native consultants claim, these are three huge, tall and strong black men (tri burre qysh japin fatnë). Another variation on this theme comprises the stories about Christ’s disciples, the apostles and their followers, who can also determine the child’s fate. Leksyka mitologii albańskiej. Badania arealne w wielojęzycznym regionie Morza AzowskiegoNa Ukrainie znajdują się cztery albańskie wsie: Karakurt (Zhovtnevoe) założona w 1811 roku (rejon Odessy), Tyushki (Georgievka), Dzhandran (Gammovka) oraz Taz (Devninskoe) założone w 1862 roku (rejon Zaporoża). Analiza leksyki gwar albańskich na Ukrainie wykazuje kontynuację terminologii mitologicznej z terenu południowo-wschodniej Albanii (Korça, Devoll, Kolonja).W gwarze albańskiej Ukrainy brak wspólnej nazwy na istoty ze świata demonów. Najczęściej używa się określeń: nok janë të prastúrë (dosłownie ‘są  nieczyste’), shpírti nok i prastúrë (‘duch nieczysty’).Istnieje bardzo dużo opowieści  o przemienianiu się ludzi w zwierzęta – psy, koty, kozy, lisy, kurczaki i in., a nawet w przedmioty (najczęstszy wątek mówi o przemianie człowieka w koło). Istnieje także motyw personifikacji stepowego wiatru – w omawianym dialekcie nosi on nazwę – varalluzhg/ë, –a.Na Bałkanach popularne było wierzenie, że los każdego człowieka związany jest z trzema mitycznymi istotami. Większość narodów bałkańskich, w tym Albańczycy, uważają, że istoty te są rodzaju żeńskiego, zjawiają się w kilka godzin po narodzinach dziecka i określają jego przyszłość. Albańczycy z Ukrainy zachowali samo wierzenie, lecz w ich mitologicznym uniwersum istoty te są rodzaju męskiego. Są to, według miejscowych informatorów, trzej potężni, wysocy i silni czarni mężczyźni (tri burre qysh japin fatnë). Inny wariant tego wątku mówi, że mogą to być uczniowie Chrystusa, apostołowie i ich następcy.
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Dictionaries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania – a Contribution to the History of (Western)Ruthenian Lexicography and Word-Inventory In the article an attempt to describe the oldest Western Ruthenian dictionary has been made. The analysis is based on the following texts: 1) Leksis s tolkovanīem slovenskikh mov prosto  of the first part of the 16th century, 2) Leksis siriech rechenïia v"krat"tsie s"bran(")ny. I īz slove(n)skago iazyka naprosty(ĭ) ruskīĭ diale(k)t istol(")kovany L,Z  by L. Zizaniy (Vilno 1596), 3) Leksīkon slavenorosskīĭ ī imen tl"kovanīe  by P. Berynda (Kiev 1627), 4) Sinonima slavenorosskaia (the end of the 17th century). The focus of attention is directed to lexicographic specificity of the antique texts, the elements of their macro- and microstructures, sources and techniques of material documentation, which made it possible to observe the evolution of lexicographers` methodological procedure in the range of the structure of an entry, e.g.: efforts to introduce grammatical information, qualifiers (mostly etymological and stylistic), and material exemplification.Dictionaries, which were essentially used to learn the language of liturgical celebration, contained religious vocabulary. It should be noted, however, that their authors introduced Ruthenian words of various thematic groups and stylistic registers to the translated parts of lexicons. In Berynda`s dictionary Polish loan words appeared as entries. Słowniki w Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim – przyczynek do historii (zachodnio)ruskiej leksykografii i leksykiW artykule podjęto próbę charakterystyki najstarszych słowników zachodnioru­skich na podstawie kilku źródeł: 1) Leksis s tolkovanīem slovenskikh mov prosto z pierwszej połowy XVI w.; 2) Leksis siriech rechenïia v"krat"tsie s"bran(")ny. I īz slove(n)skago iazyka naprosty(ĭ) ruskīĭ diale(k)t istol(")kovany L,Z  W. Zizaniego (Wilno 1596); 3) Leksīkon slavenorosskīĭ ī imen tl"kovanīe  P. Beryndy (Kijów 1627); 4) Sinonima slavenorosskaia  (koniec XVII w.). Głównie uwagę skupiono na specyfice leksykograficznej zabytków, elementach ich makro-i mikrostruktury, źródłach oraz sposobach dokumentacji materiału. Pozwoliło to zaobserwować pewną ewolucję warsztatu metodologicznego leksykografów w zakresie budowy artykułu hasłowego, jak np. próby wprowadzania informacji gramatycznej, kwalifikatorów (głównie etymologicznych, stylistycznych) oraz egzemplifikacji materiałowej.Słowniki, przeznaczone zasadniczo do nauki języka liturgicznego i lektury ksiąg cerkiewnych, gromadziły przede wszystkim leksykę religijną. Należy jednak zauważyć, że do przekładowej części leksykonów ich autorzy wprowadzali słownictwo ruskie należące do różnych grup tematycznych i rejestrów stylistycznych. W charakterze wyrazów hasłowych słownika Beryndy mogły występować również pożyczki polskie.
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The article analyzes changes over time (temporal variation) in the name of three old farming habits: pierzak, dożynki and szczeblik. The author analyzed the materials obtained today in terms of generational diversity and compared them with archival data – Adam Tomaszewski and Atlas of the language and folk culture of Greater Poland. The analyzes showed that the generational differentiation is insignificant among the surveyed informants, while the chronological changes of the surveyed names show a varying degree of transformation.
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