Nazwy "pięści" w materiałach "Ogólnosłowiańskiego atlasu językowego"
Names of ‘fist’ in the "General Slavic Linguistic Atlas" files

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the geographical location of morphonologically reconstructed Proto Slavonic (familiar) and loan (etymologically simplified) forms that mean ‘fist’. The analysis is based on material that had been stored in the archives of the General Slavic Linguistic Atlas, collected in about 850 local points on the territory of all Slavonic countries. A feature characteristic for the reflex forms meaning ‘fist’ is their little differentiation in quantity (only about 30 basic forms) and distinct areal accumulation, to¬gether with a relatively large territorial contribution of reflexes of loan word forms. The West Slavic and Slovenian linguistic areas are dominated by the reflex forms *pęst ь. A smaller area (mostly Serbian, partly Montenegrin, Croatian, Bulgarian and Mace¬donian) is being occupied by the reflexes of the *pęst ьn ic a form. *Šak a reflexes are found at majority of Croatian linguistic region, as are forms derived from the Proto Slavonic *tup an ic a in Macedonian area. The Slavonic terri¬tory is generally dominated by reflex forms of Turkish origin – *(kulak) ъ (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) and (jumruk) ъ (Bulgaria) along with, though marginally, of Italian descent – in south west periphery (Slovenia). The results are pictured on an attached map.

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