Bogactwo leksykalne gwar staroobrzędowców jako wynik kontaktów z nowym otoczeniem etnicznym
Lexical richness of the Old Believers’ dialects as a result of contacts with new surroundings

Summary/Abstract: Old-Believers, who were escaping from persecutions, started moving towards the western neighbours of Russia. They set up their settlements in The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lithuania, Belarus), Livonia (Latgale) and on the western shore of the lake Peipus. The lexis of the displaced people was influenced by numerous borrowings through centuries. We can observe many synonyms of the elements of the native and foreign vocabulary. The article presents typical features common for the five enclaves of the Old-Believers in Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Estonia. The analysis of the features is based on the material excerpted from dictionaries of the Old-Believers' dialects.

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