The folk etymologies of place names in a parish Radziłów (district of Kolno) Cover Image

Etymologie ludowe nazw wsi w gminie Radziłów (powiat grajewski)
The folk etymologies of place names in a parish Radziłów (district of Kolno)

Author(s): Ewa Rogowska-Cybulska
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Customs / Folklore, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: folk etymologies; place names; parish Radziłów (district of Kolno)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the fourteen folk etymologies of a toponym Radziłów (the name of a village in the present district of Kolno in Podlaskie province) and also nine names of other villages situated in a parish Radziłów: Brychy, Glinki, Janowo, Konopki, Kramarzewo, Łoje, Rydzewo, Pieniążek and Wiązownica. The author juxtaposes all the folk etymologies of these names and compares them structurally and semantically with their scientific etymologies.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 127-144
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish