TY - JOUR N2 - The paper is devoted to the origin of a set of supposedly related Polish place names pointing to a Slavic proto-form *žьgъrʹь. Its main results can be summarized as follows: — The supposed topographic appellative is preserved in four to seven Polish, place or terrain names in Central and Northern Poland. Its precise meaning and etymology is not quite clear. — Nevertheless, it cannot be excluded that a derivative of this rare word was preserved in Montenegro as žàgrica ʽslope’, the exact proto-form of which, however, cannot be established with certainty for the moment. The Slovak place name Žehra could be related as well. — An etymology is considered which attaches *žьgъrʹь < *gigura- to the reduplicated root contained, e.g., in Old Indic jígāti. — The name of a ford on the Orzyc river (northeastern Poland), attested in the middle 14th century as Old Prussian Zingurbrast and Old Polish Żgierz should be considered rather as an originally Slavic (Proto- or Old Polish) toponym. L1 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/108481/PDF-MASTER/08%20A%20VADO%20IN%20PRUTHENICO%20SINGURBRAST%20ET%20IN%20POLONICO.pdf L2 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/108481 PY - 2017 IS - No 61 KW - toponimia polska KW - słowiańska leksyka topograficzna KW - Zgierz KW - Singurbrast KW - žagrica A1 - Babik, Zbigniew PB - Komitet Językoznawstwa PAN PB - Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN DA - 2017 T1 - …a vado in Pruthenico Singurbrast et in Polonico Sgers nominato UR - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/108481 T2 - Onomastica ER -