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    Published: 2025-10-31
    Vol. 827 No. 8 (2025)

    Japanese words in the Polish language of the 19th and 20th centuries in view of lexicographic resources

    Maciej Mazurkiewicz

    Abstract

    The article seeks to verify the hitherto unexplored group of Japanese loanwords in Polish from the 19th to the end of the 20th century on the basis of entries extracted from dictionaries of foreign words. The collected material was verified by establishing a definition of a Japanese loanword which takes into account the identifiability of the donor word in Japanese. A total of 154 borrowings were distinguished. The vocabulary was divided into 10 extensive semantic fields. The study also proposes an approximate chronology for individual words and offers a general account of the adaptation processes undergone by the analysed Japanese borrowings.

    Keywords:

    Japanese words, lexical borrowing, chronology of borrowings, loanword adaptation, lexical meaning, semantic fields

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    Mazurkiewicz, M. (2025). Japanese words in the Polish language of the 19th and 20th centuries in view of lexicographic resources. Poradnik Językowy, 827(8), 80–98. Retrieved from https://www.journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/pj/article/view/1829

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