O złudności nowości, o pozorności dawności (na przykładzie demokratury)
About illusoriness of novelty and seemingness of being ancient (as exemplified by demokratura)

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the criteria of neonymy which are adopted in the literature and in practice of registering new words, as exemplified by the internationalism demokratura. In the first part we briefly describe the history of this word, possible sources of borrowing it, and explore its fate in the Polish language. In the second part we discuss the neonymic status of the noun demokratura. In conclusion we propose a set of objectivized criteria, which allow to more precisely determine the status of new words as neologisms, ephemerida or occasionalisms.

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