Skarbnica leksyki staropolskiej
Treasury of Old Polish vocabulary

Summary/Abstract: The paper provides information about the grant project titled “Treasury of the Old Polish Lexis” directed by Ewa Deptuchowa in the Institute of Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences in years 2009-2012. Contractors in the project: L. Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Z. Wanicowa, F. Wysocka, W. Twardzik i M. Frodyma worked on selected semantic categories (natural sciences, legal, religious vocabulary) and on syntactical function of synsemantic words and on interpretations of contexts from Latin manuscripts that include Polish glosses. After presentation of goals of the project, of the methodology of their accomplishment and of the results by Ewa Deptuchowa, individual participants provide descriptions of major issues in the realized project tasks. M. Frodyma presents words in the field of religion and theology, which were noted for the first time and those that were known from the Old Polish Dictionary, but were characterized by new phonetical variants or new inflexion forms, meanings, idioms and proofs older from registered in the Old Polish Dictionary. L. Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, who is specializing in natural sciences names, describes the methodology to establish correct forms of dictionary articles and meanings of several among many words. Z. Wanicowa introduces the methodology of working on the material in the field of legal language, highlighting a large number of hapax legomena and borrowings, especially from German. F. Wysocka writes about the difficulties of the work of a palaeographist and meanings of the correct interpretation of Polish glosses in Latin manuscripts. Some of the presented examples have been illustrated with photographs of the manuscripts.

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