O pochodzeniu nazwy Nieborów
About the Origin of the Nieborów Name

Summary/Abstract: The base of the name Nieborów, a village near Łowicz, lies in the Slavic personal name *Niebor-, consisting of the negation non- and the Proto-Slavic stem *bor- (*boriti ‘defend, fi ght, prohibit’). Such personal names with negatives are no longer present in Iranian, Germanic, and Balto-Slavic anthroponymy and are probably a remnant of the Indo-European anthroponomical system. There are many *Niebor- occurences in Polish local names and in old Polish personal names. It referred to the so-called magical names aiming at protecting their owner or confusing the enemy, but equally well, the term could have been a name for a clumsy man unable to fight

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