Słownictwo z zakresu zwyczajów i obrzędów wielkanocnych w perspektywie historycznej
The vocabulary concerning Easter customs and rites from a historical perspective

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the Easter customs and rites and the period preceding Easter (Holy Week),the holiday that had been celebrated for a very long time. The attention is focused on Holy Week, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. There is a mention about folk magic practices to secure health, beauty, prosperity and a good crop. The author attempts to provide a lexical and cultural description of 23 lexemes and 10 collocations functioning in the general Polish language and its dialects, taking into consideration their etymology, time and place of occurrence and their presence in the literature of the past centures. She gives characteristics of some synonyms referring to Easter eggs and what was done with them, the lexis referring to Palm Sunday and Eater Monday, and the names related to folk ceremonies on particular days of Holy Week. The collected vocabulary has been divided into four groups, which include: 1) the lexis of general Polish language, 2) some dialects, 3) forms not to be found in dictionaries, 4) a lexeme that occurred only in the text of Old Polish.Download file

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