SŁOWNICTWO OPISUJĄCE WYGLĄD LUDZI W XVIII-WIECZNYCH SŁOWNIKACH GEOGRAFICZNYCH
The vocabulary describing the look of people in the 18th-century geographical dictionaires

Summary/Abstract: The vocabulary describing the look of people and their clothes was excerpted from two 18th – century geographical dictionaires: by Karpiński (Vilnius 1766) and by Siarczyński (Warsaw 1782–1783). The material is arranged thematically. The first group consists of terms which concern the look of people (piękny – beautiful, szpetny – ugly), the colour of skin (biała – white, czarna – black, czerwona – red) and parts of a human body (nos płaski – flat nose, ciężka noga – heavy leg, oczy na wierzchu i czarne – eyes atop and black). The second group is formed with the names of clothes and adornments (czapka – a cap, suknia – a dress, podwiązki – garters, zausznice – earrings). The third group includes the words which define attributes of look recognized as beautiful by different nations (długie uszy – long ears, czarne zęby – black teeth). In the dictionaires these nations were thoroughly described: from Europe – the Saami, from Asia – the Chinese, from Africa – the Hottentots, from America – the Iroquois and the Sasquehanoxes.

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