Jeszcze o słownictwie kresowym (próba porównania idiolektów szlacheckich i chłopskich na Podolu)
Once more about Polish vocabulary in the Eastern Borderlands (an attempt of comparing idiolects of petty nobility and peasants in Podolia)

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the vocabulary of three idiolects of descendants of Polish petty nobility in Ukrainian Podolia. The vocabulary is divided into three groups: native Polish words, lexical doublets, borrowings, and is compared with the vocabulary of peasants. The first group represents native Polish words used by respondents from the petty nobility, equivalents of which are borrowings in the dialects of peasants or words common to dialectal or archaic Polish and Eastern Slavic languages. The second group considers lexical doublets, i.e. native Polish words used parallel to their borrowed equivalents, the frequency and context of their usage. The third group deals with some borrowings from Ukrainian and Russian which are common both to the vocabulary of petty nobility and peasants. The study shows that in many cases word (pair of words) needs to be analyzed separately considering different factors, such as context, frequency of use, style of speech, etc. However, Polish of petty nobility in the sphere of vocabulary seems to be more conservative than Polish of peasants.

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