Zaduma nad „Porównawczym słownikiem trzech wsi małopolskich” Mariana Kucały
The meditation over „Porównawczy słownik trzech wsi małopolskich” [“The comparative dictionary of three villages of Little Poland”] by Marian Kucała

Summary/Abstract: The article shows the great scientific value of the Marian Kucała’s dictionary entitled „Porownawczy słownik trzech wsi małopolskich” [“The comparative dictionary of three villages of Little Poland”] (Kucała 1957) in which the author of the dictionary presents the vocabulary of his native village Więciórka and two other villages of southern Little Poland. The author of the article particularly shows that thematic order of Kucała’s dictionarysimplifies to some extent the investigation of the dialect synonimy. For example, in this article a group of synonyms denoting the various ways of speaking is discussed, e.g. ‘bebłać’ ‘to speak indistinctly’, ‘huczeć’ ‘to speak very loudly’, ‘satrzyć’ ‘to speak quickly and indistinctly’. The author of this article chose from Kucała’s “Dictionary” eleven words of this kind and compared them with the data of „Słownik gwar polskich” [“The Dictionary of Polish Dialects”] (SGP PAN and SGP PAN kart), „Słownik gwar gorczańskich” (zagorzańskich)[“The Dictionary of the Inhabitants of Gorce Mountains”] (Kobylińska 2001) and „Słownik gwar orawskich” [“The Dictionary of the Dialects of Orawa”] (Kąś 2011). As a result of this comparison one could see which synonyms occur only in the village Więciórka, and which ones have a broader geographical extent. The article shows that Kucała’s “Dictionary” is of great scientific value, because: 1) it contains the whole dialect vocabulary which was noted and elaborated in the native village by Kucała, who was an autochthon and eminent dialectologist 2) the thematic order was applied in the “Dictionary” for the first time in Polish dialectology 3) the author of the “Dictionary” compared the vocabulary of Więciórka with the vocabularies of two other villages of southern Little Poland where he himself collected the necessary data. Owing to these qualities Kucała’s “Dictionary” became an outstanding work of Polish dialectological lexicography in the middle of the 20th century, a model of elaboration for numerous future lexicographers-dialectologists.

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