The article presents Polish proverbs included in the Václav Flajšhans's dictionary Česká přislovi. The author notes that in addition to a significant group of lexical borrowings that permeated from the Polish language to the Czech language in the 19 th century, a large group is also proverbs. In the Flajshans's dictionary there are differentiating informations near those proverbs showing that author of the dictionary was aware that some of them may be common to the Eastern and Western Slavs.

Original languageCzech
Pages (from-to)33-48
Number of pages16
JournalBohemistyka
Volume2019
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

    Research areas

  • Czech, Paremiology, Polish, Proverbs, Václav Flajšhans

    Scopus subject areas

  • Arts and Humanities(all)
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Linguistics and Language

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