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The phrase zbić z pantałyku ‘to perplex, shatter somebody’s confidence’The article concerns the East-Slavic linguistic influence on Polish in the second half of the nineteenh century as exemplified by the meaning of the phrase zbić z pantałyku. Today’s meaning of the phrase is associated with another phraseologism zbić z tropu ‘to throw [lit. knock] off trace,’ which originates from the hunting...
International scientific conference Мови Європи в стані оновлення (Kiev, 20–21 April 2016)The article is a report from an international scientific conference, organised on 20–21 April 2016 in Kiev by the Institute of the Ukrainian Language, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The conference, entitled Мови Європи в стані оновлення, was devoted to innovations in European languages, including especially...
Folk perceptions of disease through the prism of Ukrainian and Polish phraseologyThe article analyzes the phraseological units of the Ukrainian and Polish languages motivated by folk perceptions of the etiology of diseases; describes ethnocultural features of the formation of the analyzed units; and reveals that in Ukrainian and Polish phraseology the idea of personification and demonic origin of...
Review: Roman Tymoshuk, Wojciech Sosnowski, Maciej Jaskot, Yurii Ganoshenko, Leksykon aktywnej frazeologii polskiej i ukraińskiej, KJV Digital Sp. z o.o., Warszawa 2018, 312 pp.The article is a review of a novel lexicographic work, whose authors collate most frequent phraseologisms of the Polish and Ukrainian languages, based on the material of the spoken language of the young generation of both languages’...
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