Vocabulary of the northern borderlands in the firs half of 19th century (based on household handbook) from 1937) Cover Image

Słownictwo północnokresowe z pierwszej połowy XIX wieku (na podstawie "Poradnika gospodarstwa domowego" z 1837 roku)
Vocabulary of the northern borderlands in the firs half of 19th century (based on household handbook) from 1937)

Author(s): Irena Maryniakowa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Polish vocabulary; borderland Polish; Podlassian dialects; 19th century Polish

Summary/Abstract: he basis for this paper was Spiżarnia wiejska obywatelska, czyli praktyczne przepisy porządnego i należytego, tak utrzymania, jako i urządzenia spiżarni … (Citizen’s country store Room, or practical advices on appropriate maintenance and furnishment of a store room…), a small handbook on maintaining the household, storing the farm produces, as well as on preparation and storage of preserves, written by J. Dabkiewicz and published in Vilnius in 1838. At the end of the book there are two dictionary-enclosures - Słowniczek miar i wag (Vocabulary of weights and measures) and Słownik trudniejszych wyrazów, które wyszły już z użycia. (Vocabulary of difficult words that have become extinct). These dictionaries were probably compiled during the preparation of a reprint of the book. The second enclosure is particularly interesting. It was analyzed, mainly in terms of the presence of the mentioned words in the modern vocabulary (precisely speaking vocabulary of the second half of the 20th century) and the dialectal vocabulary from outside the borderlands. Some of the words, qualified as extinct, are still in use in dialectal speech in Podlassia and northern Mazovia, preserving the original meaning or introducing minor changes. Other words are mentioned in earlier dialectal studies or in dictionaries of general Polish, without a qualifier or qualified as “obsolete”. Only a few of the words mentioned in the Słownik are qualified as stemming from borderlands (some of them are borrowings from the Russian language). The guiding idea of this study is presenting the direct linguistic relationship of the former north-easter Borderlands with the Polish language, including dialects of Podlassia and north-eastern Mazovia.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 149-160
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish