Mysterious {potucha} Against the Formation with the {-ucha} in the Historical Development of the Polish Language Cover Image

Tajemnicza {potucha} na tle formacji z {-ucha} w historycznym rozwoju polszczyzny
Mysterious {potucha} Against the Formation with the {-ucha} in the Historical Development of the Polish Language

Author(s): Błażej Osowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: słowotwórstwo; dialektologia; historia języka polskiego, formant -ucha; gwary; wschodnia Wielkopolska KEYWORDS: word formation; dialectology; history of the Polish language, suffix -ucha; dialect; eastern Greater Poland

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the historical development of the formation with the suffix {-ucha} in Polish. Uses a dictionary of historical and contemporary Polish, so it can show changes in the lexical and word formation system. Arrangements obtained in this way serve interpreting {potucha} acting in one of local dialects of eastern Greater Poland in meaning until now unrecorded in dialectal dictionaries: ‘dirty woman; associated with witchcraft, the witch’.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 62
  • Page Range: 195-206
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish