Polszczyzna grażdańska w słowniku carycy Katarzyny II
The Polish language in grazhdanka in the dictionary by tsarina Catherine II

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the Polish 18th-century vocabulary written with grazhdanka and included in the first edition of Catherine the Great’s dictionary titled Cpaвниmeльныe Cлoвapи вcѣxъ языкoвъ и нapѣчій… – Linguarum totius orbis vocabularia comparativa… (1787–1789). The dictionary is the first known attempt to record the Polish language with the grazhdanka alphabet. It is also another multilingual lexicographic work that accounts for Polish, which has not been indicated in bibliographies, compilations and studies in the history of Polish lexicography to date. The 18th-century grazhdan records of the Polish language are analysed in two major aspects: graphical and phonetic as well as lexical and semantic ones (including interpretation of selected translations from Russian into Polish with the use of the “translator’s traces” method proposed here). All Polish words written in the dictionary by Catherine II with grazhdanka are included in the annex.

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