Obraz dawnego powiatu zbaraskiego na podstawie nazw miejscowości
Onomastic Picture of the Zbarazh District on the Basic of Names of Places

Summary/Abstract: Onomastic Picture of the Zbarazh District in the Podolian Voivodeship of the First Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Zbarazh District with the western part of Podolia were joined to Poland in the 14th century, to which it belonged intermittently until the end of World War II. The purpose of the article is a semantic and structural analysis of the names of the places in this area, on the basis of which emerges a linguistic picture of the Zbarazh District. The most numerous group of physiographic names describes its natural properties – the richness of rivers and lakes, animals occurring in this area, forested places, numerous curves and plateaus. Also, ethnic names indirectly refer to the nature of the land itself whereas cultural names describe the district due to its properties acquired as a result of human activity. The youngest layer of these are ideological names created during the communism. Older cultural names inform about settlement forms, defensive places, places related to economy. Renewed and diminutive names depend on the new settlements being built in the district. Among the names of places coming from personal names, the most numerous group are patronymic names, which are based on eastern or neutral names, just like the possessive ones.

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