Zapożyczenie rubel ‘drąg do przyciskania siana na drabiniastym wozie’ w gwarach wschodniej Polski
A loanword rubel “a pole to press hay in ladder wagon” in dialects of Eastern Poland

Summary/Abstract: The article describes a range of East Slavonic borrowing rubel in dialects of Eastern Poland as well as its derivatives, which not only serves as a good example of lexical peculiarity on the Polish-East Slavonic borderland but also bears witness to old rural reality. The material is an interesting illustration of language contacts beyond state borders and beyond affiliation with a particular literary language.

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