O opozycjach kolorystycznych w ojkonimii Polski
On colour oppositions in Polish oikonymy

Summary/Abstract: There are more than 2000 settlements in Poland with names containing a colouradjective. Etymologists sometimes point to the colour of the soil or another physicalattribute but more often than not those names are left entirely unexplained. The goalof the present paper is to tentatively probe Polish oikonymy for traces of an ancientsystem of colour symbolism, perhaps one similar to the Chinese-Turkic system whichmay be responsible for the Slavic names of White Russia, and Black and Red Ruthenia.

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