Dictionary of false friends French – Polish. Purposes and working out Cover Image

Dictionnaire de faux amis français-et-polonais. Objectifs et réalisation
Dictionary of false friends French – Polish. Purposes and working out

Author(s): Jacek Pleciński
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

Summary/Abstract: The author of this paper has compiled a Dictionary of so-called false friends for French and Polish. These are mainly “occidentalisms”, i.e. terms borrowed from Latin and Romance languages, which have reached Polish but changed their meanings. This paper explains to its readers how the dictionary was made and how to use it.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 385-393
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French
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