Zapożyczenia litewskie dotyczące charakteru i zachowań człowieka (na materiale gwar polskich na Litwie
Lithuanian loanwords describing human character and behaviour (Based on the material of Polish dialects in Lithuania)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present article is to describe the vocabulary of Lithuanian origin that correlates with an individual’s psychology. The major attention in the article is given to the function of this lexical group in the present-day Polish dialects, as well as to the changes, which took place in the semantic structure of the borrowings in comparison to the original expressions. In this connection, the area of the usage of corresponding lexemes in Lithuanian dialects has been established, their semantic structure analysed, and stylistic marking regarded. Most of the analyzed material has been chosen from my personal collection of Lithuanisms, and it contains voca­bulary used in various dialect regions of Lithuania. The Lithuanisms discussed in the article correlate to such individual’s qualities as loquacity, proneness to complain, moan, wail, frivolity, slowness, negligence, slyness and foolishness.

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