Rzeczownik hasen i formacje pochodne w gwarze Bugaja na Pogórzu na tle innych gwar
The noun hasen [profit, benefit] and its derivatives in the local dialect of Bugaj (the Carpathian Foothills) against the other local dialects.

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the noun hasen / hasyn / hasynt, as well as the verb hasnować together with its prefix derivatives as they function in the local dialect of the village Bugaj at the Carpathian Foothills (Biecz commune, Gorlice county). In the local dialect of the Biecz region, the verb hasnować ‘to benefit from sth., to be profitable, beneficial’) – a derivative from the Slovak word hasen ‘profit, benefit, income,’ itself being of Hungarian origin (or considered to be a direct Hungarian borrowing) –has gained a new meaning: ‘to waste, to squander,’ and has come to collocate with names of material goods, money, property, etc. The article presents the lex-icographic documentation of the analysed group of words, the territorial range of their usage, origin, meanings, as well as a hypothesis on the reasons underlying the semantic changes.

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