Opis gwary wsi Rachanie, pow. Tomaszów Lubelski. Cz. III. Słownictwo

Abstrakt

The paper outlines the dialect in the village Rachanie, pow. Tomaszów Lubelski, against the background of the Polish-Russian border. The vocabulary presented here belongs to the oldest part of the dialect. Various semantic circles of this vocabulary have been listed here: tilling of the land, breeding, culinary art, appelative names of people derived from their traits, vocabulary from religion, and children’s vocabulary. The paper has also discussed the foreign influences, especially Russian, also from the Yiddish, English, French, German, Turkish-Tartar, and Hungarian. Attention has been focused on the problem of words’ disappearance, the culture of the language in a dialect milieu. In relation with rapid social changes that cause the dialect in its traditional form die, the paper may be, in a sense, a document of the ancient state of the dialect. At the moment, it undergoes violent changes in relation with civilisation and social changes in the village.

There appears a new heterogeneous shape of the language of the village whose users are, above all, young people and of middle-aged generation. They remain under the influence of the Polish-wide language of the media, including people coming from outside.