Problemy metodologiczne z badaniem orientalizmów w języku polskim
Methodological Problems of Researching into Orientalisms in the Polish Language

Summary/Abstract: There are three basic methodological requirements – known for almost a hundred years – which must be fulfilled to properly determine the etymon (Greek: ἔτυμον) of a word borrowed from an oriental language (in most cases a Turkic language). The article presents a fourth requirement concerning not the etymon itself, but rather the ways it has been permeating the Slavonic languages, and partly also the West-European ones, which adds to the complexity of the research situation. In order to show the methodological problems the lexical examples have been divided into five groups: (1) real orientalisms; (2) borrowings from Turkish and other Turkic languages; (3) orientalisms from Western Europe; (4) alleged orientalisms; (5) unexpected orientalisms. The conclusion is that the future of the research into borrowings – not only orientalisms, and not only in the Polish language – will be based on cooperation of etymologists who at the same time are philologists of various languages.

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