Słownictwo z zakresu zwyczajów i obrzędów wielkanocnych w perspektywie historycznej

The article deals with the Easter customs and rites and the period preceding Easter (Holy Week),the holiday that had been celebrated for a very long time. The attention is focused on Holy Week,Easter Sunday and Easter Monday. There is a mention about folk magic practices to securehealth, beauty, prosperity and a good crop. The author attempts to provide a lexical and culturaldescription of 23 lexemes and 10 collocations functioning in the general Polish language andits dialects, taking into consideration their etymology, time and place of occurrence and theirpresence in the literature of the past centures. She gives characteristics of some synonyms referringto Easter eggs and what was done with them, the lexis referring to Palm Sunday and EaterMonday, and the names related to folk ceremonies on particular days of Holy Week. The collectedvocabulary has been divided into four groups, which include: 1) the lexis of general Polishlanguage, 2) some dialects, 3) forms not to be found in dictionaries, 4) a lexeme that occurredonly in the text of Old Polish.