ODANTROPONIMICZNE DERYWATY POCHODZENIA ANGIELSKIEGO
Anthroponym-based derivatives with the English origin

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary Polish language is under increasingly stronger influences of the English language. This process can be noticed primarily in the growing number of lexical borrowings. Some Anglicisms owe their origin to those who had enormous impact on the development of science, culture, art, social life, e.g. darwinizm (Darvinism) < Ch.R. Darwin, thatcheryzm/taczeryzm (Thatcherism) < < M. Thatcher, baskerville (Baskerville) < J. Baskerville. Their names, through the process of appelativisation, as well as borrowing and derivational processes, have become symbols of their achievements. Hence, there are words coming from English anthroponymic names in today’s Polish. This paper presents a collection and specifi city of this type of lexemes codifi ed in the largest dictionary of foreign words – Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych PWN (PWN great dictionary of foreign words) (2005), edited by M. Bańko, with the etymology, semantics, adaptation and word-formation processes in Polish taken into account. It also presents the phenomenon of the interference of English in a positive light as it establishes the relation of the word not only with its meaning but also with its origin in the consciousness of the language user.

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