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Zapomniane wyrazy polskie z XVII wieku
Forgotten Polish words from the 17th century

Author(s): Stanisław Stachowski
Subject(s): Morphology, Lexis, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Polish Literature, Western Slavic Languages, 17th Century, Philology
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: F. Meninski; Thesaurus Linguarium Orientalium; 17th century Polish words; Polish language; vocabulary; word formation;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a group of words from F. Meninski’s Thesaurus Linguarium Orientalium (1680), which denote agents and carriers of attributes. The collection contains about a hundred words. Only few of them are still in use nowadays in the formal language, mainly in historical novels. Some can also be still found in modern Polish dialects. These words, however, are new derivatives rather than the continuants of our words, and usually have a different meaning.

  • Issue Year: XLVII/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 225-236
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian
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