Rusycyzmy słownikowe w „Kurierze Warszawskim” z pierwszej połowy 1918 roku (litery A–K)
Lexical Russianisms in “Kurier Warszawski” from the fi rst half of 1918 (letters A–K)

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents lexical Russianisms used in the Polish language in the interwar period. Only a portion of the collected lexis is demonstrated here; namely, words and expressions beginning with letters A–K. The analysis of the singular vocabulary was performed on the material from “Kurier Warszawski”, a popular daily published in the capital city of Poland in the years 1918–1939. The aim of this paper is to investigate into the extent to which the Russian language influenced the lexis used in the Warsaw daily published in the interwar period, that is directly after regaining independence. The excerpted lexical phenomena from the first half of 1918 are confronted with the resources of definitional dictionaries of Polish and Russian as well as translation and etymological dictionaries. The author noted 34 borrowings from the Russian language. From among this lexis 15 units had been recorded in central Poland, as early as in the period of the Russian rule. 4 lexemes were in use in the interwar period in the North-Eastern Borderlands. Two borrowings from Russian (etap, gilza) were noted as late as at the close of the 20th century in the 20th c. in the Vilnian Polish language. 10 words are the so-called Sovietisms, that is lexical items naming the Russian reality of the post-revolutionary period.

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