The article is devoted to more comprehensive use of medieval onymic resources in research on the history of the Polish language. These materials were used in research on the phonetic development of the Polish language in its earliest period. To date, they have rarely appeared in lexical studies. The body of the oldest appellatives, reconstructed on the basis of proper names, would be a kind of lexicon (supplement) enriching and verifying old Polish lexical material, certifi ed in historical Polish dictionaries (also in etymological dictionaries). In this way, the expectations formulated over 100 years ago by eminent Polish linguists may be fulfi lled. The complementary use of such a huge wealth of material opens up further research perspectives towards etymological, dialectological, lexical and morphological research.

This article deals with a group of Polish surnames motivated by lexis from the field of salt mining. The analysed surnames are excerpted from “Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych”, edited by Kazimierz Rymut, as well as from other onomastic compilations. These anthroponyms vary in terms of their origins and linguistic construction. We can distinguish from among these anthroponyms: 1) surnames motivated by impersonal nouns: solanka, solnica, sól, tołpa, żupa; 2) surnames motivated by adjectives: słony, solny; 3) surnames motivated by personal nouns: prasoł, solarz, solnik, warzyc, warzysz, żupnik. The description of particular ‛salt’ surnames, apart from their frequency, includes their geographical distribution, which only in some cases is connected with the location of old salt mines, found mainly in the Lesser Poland (Małopolska).

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.

Vesre jest zjawiskiem językowym, które do niedawna było przedmiotem nielicznych badań. Jest to spowodowane między innymi tym, iż bardzo często formy utworzone w ramach vesre należą do języka mówionego, przez co w źródłach leksykograficznych są one pomijane. Co więcej dość często ten mechanizm słowotwórczy jest kojarzony wyłącznie z argentyńskim wariantem języka hiszpańskiego, podczas gdy jest on również używany w innych miejscach Hispanoameryki. Toteż w niniejszej pracy analiza jest skoncentrowana na innym państwie tj. Peru, gdzie użycie vesreizmów jest niemałe. W celu ich opisania zgromadzono dane zaczerpnięte z istniejących słowników oraz innych źródeł na temat peruwiańskiego vesre. Dane te poddane są analizie formalnej, która oparta jest z jeden strony na założeniach, które zostały sformułowane w poprzednich pracach na temat argentyńskiego vesre, a z drugiej strony, mimo że są one niepełne, na informacjach leksykograficznych.