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Etymological research on the source languages of borrowings in Polish dictionaries 241
Out of the 199 entries 134, that is, 67% of the specialist vocabulary, were
classified by Szymczak as coming either from Greek or Latin. These statistics
provide yet another illustration of the trend for coining new words in the scientific
and specialist lexical areas in English (and Polish) on the basis of the Greek
and Latin languages.
Table 2. List of 20 Anglicisms and their first language etymology by Szymczak (1978–1981)
Number Entry Etymology according to SJP PWN
1 generacja Latin
2 generatywizm Latin
3 giaur Persian
4 gliceryd Latin
5 glicyna Latin
6 globulina Latin
7 glukoza Greek
8 glutyna Latin
9 gnejs German
10 gonadotropina German, Greek
11 goniatyt Greek
12 gradacja Latin
13 grill French
14 guanidyna Spanish
15 guanina Spanish
16 habituacja Latin
17 Harmonogram Greek
18 Herbicyd Latin
19 Histeria Latin
20 Homolog Greek
Szymczak’s approach to etymology was not successful among other dictionary
authors as it did not reflect the actual borrowing process from the English
to the Polish language. One of the possible reasons for Szymczak taking
such an approach could be his intended or forced willingness to purposefully
obscure the fact that the Polish language indeed borrowed extensively from
a Western language, despised in the communist times. The dictionary was compiled
in the years 1978–1981, when the anti-imperialist censorship in Poland
flourished.
The next step is to analyze further inconsistencies regarding etymological
information in the analyzed dictionaries. Table 3 presents entries which were
found in Trzaski, Everta i Michalskiego encyklopedyczny słownik wyrazów obcych
[Encyclopeadic dictionary of foreign words by Trzaska, Evert and Michalski],
(1939), which were listed as Anglicisms, while they were labeled differently
in other dictionaries (2,38% of the sample).
The discrepancies shown in Table 3 can be connected with the lack of sufficient
etymological information which the authors of the ESWO Trzaski had at