Leksyka bursztynnicza w "Słowniku leśnym, bartnym, bursztyniarskim i orylskim" Wiktora Kozłowskiego

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine the processes of nomination and ways of enriching the stock of special lexis concerning amber on the basis of the names collected in Wiktor Kozłowski’s Słownik leśny, bartny, bursztyniarski i orylski (Dictionary of Forestry, Beekeeping, Amber and Oryls, published 1846-1847). The author recorded vocabulary of varying territorial (mainly from central Poland) and socio-lectal range. We can arrange the recorded names semantically into three overarching groups: I. names pertaining to amber itself; II. names of people professionally involved in amber mining; III. names related to amber mining.This is the professional lexis used by amber workers when extracting amber from the ground. In the collection we find mainly nomenclatural names of objects. It contains lexemes taken from the general language and from dialects, as well as – conventionally enriching the stock of special lexis – word-forming neologisms, neosemantisms and borrowings.