Właściwości szkła zapisane we współczesnej frazeologii i paremiologii polskiej
Properties of glass recorded in modern Polish phraseology and paremiology

Summary/Abstract: Glass is one of the materials most often found in households, which is due to its properties and functional characteristics: appearance, hardness, transparency, and the production process the possibility of giving it multiple shapes. For centuries, people have delighted in the appearance of glass ware, attributing its properties to the phenomena they observed, which was reflected in the phraseological compounds and paremias created. For the purposes of this article, they were extracted from collections of proverbs and dictionaries. The collected material was categorized according to semantic fields, wrapped around several collections. Therefore, the present analysis is presented based on collections derived from the properties of glass: 1. transparency, 2. fragility, 3. nobility.

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