Etymologia w Wielkim słowniku języka polskiego PAN
Etymology in the Polish Academy of Sciences Great Dictionary of Polish

Author(s): Przemysław Dębowiak, Jadwiga Waniakowa, Bogumił Ostrowski
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: etymology; Polish Academy of Sciences Great Dictionary of Polish; native words; loanwords; calques
Summary/Abstract: The article offers an insight into etymological information provided in the Polish Academy of Sciences Great Dictionary of Polish. The dictionary and the rules of elaborating the entries, which influence the way of working on etymology in the dictionary, are shortly presented. The main part of the article is devoted to the presentation of the field “origin” and the etymological information which is given in one-word entries. The principles of elaborating this information in the dictionary are presented in detail and illustrated with examples. Moreover, some problems, such as the question of borrowings, calques and semantic motivation, are discussed in the paper.

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