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The goal of this article is to present the fundamental types of such pseudo-origins. The collated examples of approximately a thousand of association origins of Polish names of locations, excerpted from various printed and online texts, written questionnaires and oral interviews, indicate three types of non-academic origin employing elements of academic knowledge.
The article presents–on the selected examples–the functioning of the possessive, ancestral and patronymic names derived from anthroponyms in the process of morphological reinterpretation of Polish toponyms. Its first part treats of toponyms which, according to onomasts belong to possessive, ancestral and patronymic names, and 122 Ewa Rogowska-Cybulska SO 71/1 folk etymologists move them to other semantic...
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