This study analyses the names of the colours used by the author of the reportages. The research method is based on finding answers to the following questions: What colours does the author write about? Which of them prevail? What do they refer to? What stylistic functions do the names of the colours fulfill? What names appear in various colour fields? What parts of speech are the colours represented by? The lexicon of colour words in the reportages under consideration is quite rich. Colours are related to people, animals, plants, landscapes and artefacts, and their function is to describe the appearance of the characters and their beauty, depict their clothing and their mental state, portray the reality of the Borderlands, mainly the landscape. Most often, they are used as epithets. The names in the colour field are not ifferentiated. Colours are most often represented by adjectives, less frequently by nouns, verbs, active and passive participles and adverbs. Occasionally, adjectival compounds are used.
The aim of this paper is to present the multitude of foreign words and phrases in reportages published in the Anoda i katoda [Anode and Cathode] collection by Melchior Wańkowicz and to answer the following questions: Does the author mark foreign words in his text? Have they been adapted to the Polish language? Where did this abundance of borrowings come from? When the lexemes or phrases were kept in their original form, it was established whether the writer marked them in the text, and if so, how it was achieved. In the group of words highlighted in the text by the writer, the majority are written in italics. The writer did not use any special distinction towards many words in a foreign form. In those cases when words of foreign origin were adapted to the Polish language system, the methods of this adaptation were indicated. The two largest collections of foreign vocabulary in the examined material originate from Latin and French. Some foreign lexemes were adapted to Polish, becoming the basis for new words in the Polish language by declination and replacement of vowels and/or consonants with their Polish equivalents. The diversity of the borrowings applied is the effect of the writer’s background in the multi-cultural Borderlands, his thorough education and his numerous journeys and long time spent abroad.
The subject of this paper are words of French origin, occurring in Thomas Mann’s novel, “Lotte in Weimar”. The author uses numerous Gallicisms for stylistic reasons. The plot of the novel covers the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, when the influence of the French language on the German language was very strong. The paper emphasizes the degrees of assimilation of French vocabulary in the German language system. Consequently, the collected material, derived from one hundred pages of the novel, has been divided into two large groups: 1) borrowings without German word-formation means, 2) borrowings with German or Germanized word-formation means in terms of derivation and composition. Noun borrowings in unaltered and altered forms are prevalent among the group of words without German word-formation means. In terms of derivation, the most numerous group is made up of verbs and participles. As regards composition, there were compounds observed containing both modified elements and modifiers of French origin. Nouns account for the largest share of the vocabulary collected, while adjectives and adverbs are less frequent.
This paper aims to present the origin of German surnames to indicate whether they have variants, their origin, and whether the surnames under investigation could still be found in Warmia in the 18th century and the 20th century in the former province of Olsztyn. The research material comes from the Reszel Baptismal Register Number E 462 = Rössel, Taufregister: MAI 1579-1653, kept in the Archive of the Warmian Archdiocese in Olsztyn. The majority of the examined appellations are names with a single motivation. These surnames are mainly derived from place names, from names of professions and from first names. Ten surnames have variants (alternatives). The surnames Arend (4) and Berndt (5) have the largest number of alternatives. The reasons for the occurrence of variants of the examined surnames include: d → dt → t, s → ß change, Polonisation of surnames, doubling of vowels and consonants without justification, simplification of the consonant group, and the change of diphthongs. Ten of the examined surnames had ceased to exist by the 18th century, while only nine were found in the 20th century.
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Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie pochodzenia nazwisk genetycznie niemieckich, wskazanie, czy mają swoje odmianki, co jest ich przyczyną, czy badane nazwiska wystąpiły jeszcze w XVIII na Warmii i w XX wieku w dawnym województwie olsztyńskim. Materiał badawczy pochodzi z Księgi Chrztów z Reszla o numerze E 462 = Rössel, Taufregister: MAI 1579-1653, która znajduje się w Archiwum Archidiecezji Warmińskiej w Olsztynie. Większość badanych mian stanowią nazwiska o jednej motywacji. Te nazwiska pochodzą głównie od nazw miejscowości, od nazw zawodów oraz imion. Odmianki (warianty) posiada 10 nazwisk. Najwięcej odmianek mają nazwiska Arend (4) i Berndt (5). Przyczynami występowania odmianek badanych nazwisk są m. in.: wymiana d → dt → t, s → ß, polonizacja nazwisk, podwajanie samogłosek i spółgłosek bez uzasadnienia, uproszczenie grupy spółgłoskowej, wymiana dyftongów. Do XVIII wieku nie przetrwało 10 z badanych nazwisk, zaś w XX wieku pojawiło się ich tylko dziewięć.
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