Hiponimia i meronimia w słownictwie agrarnym XVII-wiecznych dzieł Jakuba Kazimierza Haura
Hyponymy and Meronymy in the Agrarian Vocabulary of the Seventeenth-Century Works of Jakub Kazimierz Haur

Summary/Abstract: This article presents a section of seventeenth-century Polish lexis, excerpted from three prominent guidance and encyclopedic opuses of Jakub Kazimierz Haur (author of agrarian treatises widely-read over two centuries), included in hyponymy and meronymy relations. Studies have shown that it is impossible to cover all agricultural terms with one hyponymic or meronymic pattern – even with very generalized one. Such patterns need to be constructed separately for each type of vocabulary (from a category of people, plants, animals, artifacts, measures etc.), although some lexical-semantic fields from a given category may have similar and convergent structure in some places, especially at the upper levels of the hierarchy, e.g. in the hyponymic set: gadzina (farm animal) – bydło (cattle); drób (poultry) – kogut (rooster), kura (hen); koń (horse), krowa (cow); baran (ram), owca (sheep) or the meronymic one: budynek (building) – dach (roof), węgieł (quoin); izba (chamber), pokój (room); okół (cattle yard) – chlew (pigpen), obora (cowshed); piwnica (cellar), loch (dungeon). Holonymy and Meronymy share a common component, ie. an element of concluding the meaning, and on the other hand, they differ in the structure of the hierarchy which each of them form. Both analyzed semantic relations organize the lexical resource collected from the texts of Haur in terms of seventeenth-century agricultural terminology. Hyponymy, seeking for the element of similarity, and meronymy, trying to integrate the part and the whole, contributed to the separation of internally coherent and externally differentiated groups of vocabulary which sometimes have complex semantic relations.

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