The article, which is a part of the monographic study on the dialectal vocabulary concerning annual festivities, customs and rites used in the region of Białystok, presents the analysis of East-Slavic terminology related to Christmas. The dialectal terms for Christmas, carollers, Boxing Day, the fourth day of Christmas and the evenings celebrated between Christmas and New Year’s Eve are discussed. The above discussion is additionally illustrated with numerous local customs and rituals whose character resembles magical incantations. The dialectal terminology of the region is outlined in two ways. Lexemes in the descriptive part are arranged in chronological order. Entries in Słownik nazw gwarowych are presented alphabetically along with their literary and dialectal equivalents in Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Russian and Polish. Moreover, etymology of some words is provided.
The present paper, an excerpt from a monographic study on the vocabulary related to holidays, customs and annual rituals in Bialystok sub dialects, presents the lexis connected with Christmas Eve. Alongside dialectal names of Christmas Eve, the paper gives the names of the Christmas supper, the ritual dish eaten on tha...
Nina Androsiuk· Studia Wschodnioeuropejskie· 0 citations
Victor Pelevin’s novel “Buddha’s Little Finger”, published in 1996, is the subject of an analysis in the present paper. The author of the article outlines factors which, on the one hand, have influenced a commercial success of this literary work and, on the other hand, have increased an interest among literaturę specia...
E. Pańkowska· Studia Wschodnioeuropejskie· 0 citations
The author introduces readers to the contents of two volumes of correspondence by one of the most prominent Lithuanian artists, regarded in Lithuania as a national figure, the painter and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911). The article discusses the structure of the volumes, their contents, as well...
Marcin Bajko· Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólno...· 0 citations
In the article the semantic classification of Russian Orthodox culture lexis is presented. One of the main problems is the selection of appropriate lexical items. These lexical items could be perceived as the verbal reflection of particular elements of Orthodox culture. It demands taking their both sacral and secular m...
Krzysztof Rutkowski· Studia Wschodnioeuropejskie· 0 citations
This paper focuses on a descriptive diachronic analysis of гордость and гордыня lexemes in Russian historical and modern lexicographical resources. In the Russian Orthodox tradition praid (гордость/гордыня) meant sin. In the XX century the word гордость was displaced from the semantical pool of “wrong” to area of “righ...
Anna Rygorowicz-Kuźma· Studia Wschodnioeuropejskie· 0 citations
This article is to analyze the changes taking place in the past tense forms exemplified by one of 16th-century written texts of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. As the result of the process, the complex system of the Old Russian past tenses underwent simplification and reduction to one universal past tense. In the Suprasl...
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