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The subject of the paper is the lexeme chęchy referring to inaccessible wet terrain of abundant vegetation which makes passage difficult. The range of occurrence and the etymology of the lexeme have been established on the basis of linguistic data from materials on General Polish and local dialects printed and published on the internet. It is a lexeme derived from the Wielkopolska region and known to both inhabitants of large cities such as Poznań and Łódź, as well as to populations of central and western Poland. It is used in everyday language and in chrematonyms - the names of shops and products. In terms of its etymology, it is an onomatopoeic word formed in imitation of the sounds of the rustling of leaves and branches and in all probability originates from Old Slavonic. Evidence of this has been found in its connections with other Slavonic lexemes of the same root and similar meaning. Its traces are also found in toponyms - place names and hydronyms beyond the Wielkopolska region and central Poland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author tries to determine a range of occurrence of the word nicpoty(m) on the Polish ethnic and linguistic territory. This word originated from a pronominal phrase nic po tym/tem that in various morphological variants (nicpotym, nicpotem, nicpoty) is used in dialects in the function of an adjective/adverb describing a worthless, meaningless thing/activity, or in the function of a noun naming a man who is a good-for-nothing, rascal or hooligan. Today these forms are considered as regionalisms from Wielkopolska but in the past they were known in the bigger area of Poland covering its western and southern parts and were used in common Polish. To determine their originally furthest range of functioning the author had to analyse nationwide and dialectal philological sources both historical and contemporary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author presents and analyses the consequences of a characteristic for Polish dialects appearance of verbal adjectives which are the continuation of former gerunds ending in -ły. They occur very often in Polish dialects. The author pays attention to lexical and morphological consequences of this phenomenon. They consist in separation of a formant -ły that can create words from a great number of derivatives of an adjectival meaning not only on a verbal basis (e.g. przeszpiegły, wartły). Finally they also consist in the appearance of derivational synonymy. Functional character of adjectives ending in -ły enables their interchangeable action with other adverbial words ending in -ny, -ony, -any, -ty of resultant effect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]