Przyroda jako dynamiczna siła oczami dawnego użytkownika polszczyzny
Nature as a dynamic force through the eyes of a former user of the Polish language

Summary/Abstract: The concept of nature has two different meanings - the first - static, refers to all things and phenomena not created by humans, the second - dynamic, refers to the force creating these phenomena. The article is an attempt to recreate the evolution of the concept of dynamic nature, i.e. nature seen as a creative force, preserved in the language from Old Polish to the present day. The basis of the analysis is material from corpora of texts from following periods of the development of the Polish language, and historical, old and modern Polish dictionaries were used as an aid. The main sense of the concept of dynamic nature, i.e. the perception of it as an active and creative driving force, was formed already in the 16th century. At the same time, the metaphorization of dynamic nature as a mother and as a donor first appeared, as well as positive axiologization. This image of the concept was consolidated in the following centuries. dynamic nature, as part of the more general concept of nature, took on a distinct shape earlier than static nature, but the two concepts overlapped from the earliest stages, and were always called by the same polysemous lexemes - przyrodzenie and natura, later przyroda.

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