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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Nazwy krzewów w śląskiej toponimii

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The paper deals with geographical names in Silesia deriving from shrub species names. An analysis of the names derived from appellatives allows for a reconstruction of the categorization methods of the world, anthropological conceptualization and a popular image of reality. Name creators choose those names from the existing collection of the names derived from the appellatives which are for certain reasons important and valuable for them. For example, the following names of shrubs become a productive toponymic base: hazel, blueberry, rose; they belong to the basic categorization level and are important for the rural community due to their usable and practical significance (in construction and economy), as well as medicinal and ritual-religious significance. Suffixes, fulfilling the function of creating new words and names, indicate the methods of categorization: they draw attention to such categories as collectivity (e.g. Orziesche, Lyszcze), size (Kalinka, Malinka), description of the object (Orzechownia, Heidel Berg), place and direction (Podlisczy, auf der Malincze).